Hosea 11:3-5

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

³ Yet I taught Ephraim to walk, taking them by their arms or taking them up in My arms, but they did not know that I healed them.

⁴ I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love, and I was to them as one who lifts up and eases the yoke over their cheeks, and I bent down to them and gently laid food before them.

⁵ They shall not [literally] return into [another bondage in] the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be their king because they refused to return to Me.