(A)The more they were called,
    the more they went away;
(B)they kept sacrificing to the Baals
    and burning offerings to idols.

Yet it was (C)I who taught Ephraim to walk;
    I took them up by their arms,
    but they did not know that (D)I healed them.
(E)I led them with cords of kindness,[a]
    with the bands of love,
and (F)I became to them as one who eases the yoke on their jaws,
    and (G)I bent down to them and fed them.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 11:4 Or humaneness; Hebrew man

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