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“But I was the one who taught Ephraim to walk.
    I took the Israelites in my arms.
I healed them,
    but they don’t know that.
I led them with ropes,[a]
    but they were ropes of love.
I was like a person who set them free.[b]
    I bent down and fed them.

“The Israelites will not go back to Egypt. The king of Assyria will become their king, because they refused to turn back to God.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 11:4 ropes The Hebrew says, “ropes of a man.”
  2. Hosea 11:4 set them free Literally, “lifted the yoke from their jaws.”

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