Hosea 11:3-5

Revised Standard Version

³ Yet it was I who taught E′phraim 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 compassion,^[b]
    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.

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