They called them, but they [a]went thus from them: they sacrificed unto Baal, and burnt incense to images.

I led Ephraim also, as one should bear them in his arms: but they knew not that I healed them.

I led them with cords [b]of a man, even with bands of love, and I was to them, as he was taketh off the yoke from their jaws, and I laid the meat unto them.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 11:2 They rebelled and went a contrary way when the Prophets called them to repentance.
  2. Hosea 11:4 That is, friendly: and not as beasts or slaves.

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