Hosea 11:1-7

21st Century King James Version

11 “When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called My son out of Egypt.

² As they called them, so they went from them; they sacrificed unto the Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.

³ I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms; but they knew not that I healed them.

⁴ I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love; and I was to them as they that take off the yoke from their jaws, and Ilaid meat before them.

⁵ “He shall not return into the land of Egypt; but the Assyrian shall be his king, because they refused to return.

⁶ And the sword shall abide on his cities, and shall consume his branches and devour them, because of their own counsels.

⁷ And My people are bent on backsliding from Me; though they called them to the Most High, none at all would exalt Him.