⁴ I drew them with cords of man, with bands of ahavah; and I was to them as they that ease the ol (yoke) on their jaws, and I bent down to feed them.

⁵ Will they not return into Eretz Mitzrayim? And will not the Assyrian be his melech, because they refused to make teshuvah.

⁶ And the cherev shall flash in his towns, and shall destroy his gate bars, and devour them, because of their own counsels.