1. “When Israel was a child, then I loved him,and called my son out of Egypt.
2. They called to them, so they went from them.They sacrificed to the Baals,and burned incense to engraved images.
3. Yet I taught Ephraim to walk.I took them by his arms;but they didn’t know that I healed them.
4. I drew them with cords of a man, with ties of love;and I was to them like those who lift up the yoke on their necks;and I bent down to him and I fed him.
5. “They won’t return into the land of Egypt;but the Assyrian will be their king,because they refused to repent.