1. When Israel was a boy, I loved him and called my son out of Egypt.
2. As they called them, so they went from them; they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.
3. Even with all this I guided the feet of this same Ephraim, taking them by their arms; but they did not know that I cared for them.
4. I drew them with human cords, with bands of love, and I was to them as those that raise the yoke from upon their cheeks, and I fed them.
5. He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king because they refused to be converted.
6. And the sword shall fall upon his cities and shall consume his villages and devour them because of their own counsels.