Hosea 11:4-6

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

⁴I led them with cords of human kindness,
    with bands of love.
I was to them like those
    who lift infants to their cheeks.^[a]
    I bent down to them and fed them.

⁵They shall return to the land of Egypt,
    and Assyria shall be their king,
    because they have refused to return to me.
⁶The sword rages in their cities,
    it consumes their oracle-priests,
    and devours because of their schemes.

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Hosea 11:4 Or who ease the yoke on their jaws

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised (NRSVA)

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