Hosea 11

¹ When Israel is a youth, then I am loving him, and from Egypt I call My son. ² As I call to them, so they go from My presence. To Baals they are sacrificing, and to carvings they are fuming incense. ³ And I taught the feet of Ephraim. I am taking him on My arms, yet they knew not that I healed them. ⁴ With the cables of a human am I drawing them, with the ropes of My love. And I am becoming to them as those raising the yoke high over their cheeks. And I am stretching out to him, and I am feeding him. ⁵ And Ephraim shall not return to dwell in the land of Egypt, yet the Assyrian, he shall be his king, seeing that they refuse to return to Me. ⁶ And the sword will wound in his cities and will finish his pretenses, and it will devour them because of their own counsels. ⁷ My people are hung on backsliding from Me; though they are proclaiming Him as the Supreme, not one is exalting Him. ⁸ How shall I dispense to you, Ephraim? Shall I award you, Israel? How shall I dispense to you as Admah? Shall I make you as Zeboim? My heart is turned in Me; my comfortings are fervid together. ⁹ I will not execute the heat of My anger; I will not return to ruin Ephraim, for the El am I, and not a man, the Holy One in your midst, and I will not enter into the city. ¹⁰ They shall go after Yahweh. He shall roar as a lioness, for He shall roar! And the sons shall tremble from the sea; ¹¹ they shall tremble as a bird from Egypt, and as a dove from the land of Assyria. And I will cause them to dwell in their houses, (averring is Yahweh). ¹² Ephraim surrounds Me with dissimulation, and the house of Israel with deceit. Yet Judah still holds sway with respect to El. And shall be trusted with holy places.