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The more I[a] called them,
    the more they went from me;[b]
they kept sacrificing to the Ba′als,
    and burning incense to idols.

Yet it was I who taught E′phraim to walk,
    I took them up in my[c] arms;
    but they did not know that I healed them.
I led them with cords of compassion,[d]
    with the bands of love,
and I became to them as one
    who eases the yoke on their jaws,
    and I bent down to them and fed them.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 11:2 Gk: Heb they
  2. Hosea 11:2 Gk: Heb them
  3. Hosea 11:3 Gk Syr Vg: Heb his
  4. Hosea 11:4 Heb man

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