Hosea 11:3-5

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

³ Yet it was I who taught Ephraim to walk,
    I took them up in my^[a] arms;
    but they did not know that I healed them.
⁴ I led them with cords of human kindness,
    with bands of love.
I was to them like those
    who lift infants to their cheeks.^[b]
    I bent down to them and fed them.

⁵ They shall return to the land of Egypt,
    and Assyria shall be their king,
    because they have refused to return to me.