Hosea 11:3-5

English Standard Version

³ Yet it was ^(A)I who taught Ephraim to walk;
    I took them up by their arms,
    but they did not know that ^(B)I healed them.
^4 (C)I led them with cords of kindness,^[a]
    with the bands of love,
and ^(D)I became to them as one who eases the yoke on their jaws,
    and ^(E)I bent down to them and fed them.

^5 (F)They shall not^[b] return to the land of Egypt,
    but ^(G)Assyria shall be their king,
    ^(H)because ^(I)they have refused to return to me.