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But as the saying goes,
“The more they were called,
    the more they rebelled.”[a]
They never stopped offering
incense and sacrifices
    to the idols of Baal.

I took Israel by the arm
    and taught them to walk.
But they would not admit
that I was the one
    who had healed them.
I led them with kindness
and with love,
    not with ropes.
I held them close to me;[b]
    I bent down to feed them.

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Footnotes

  1. 11.2 But … rebelled: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
  2. 11.4 I held … to me: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.

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