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God’s Compassion Despite Israel’s Ingratitude

11 When Israel was a child, I loved him,
    and out of Egypt I called my son.(A)
The more I[a] called them,
    the more they went from me;[b]
they kept sacrificing to the Baals
    and offering incense to idols.(B)

Yet it was I who taught Ephraim to walk;
    I took them up in my[c] arms,
    but they did not know that I healed them.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 11.2 Gk: Heb they
  2. 11.2 Gk: Heb them
  3. 11.3 Gk Syr Vg: Heb his