1. When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.
2. As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto the Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.
3. Yet I taught Ephraim to go; I took them on my arms; but they knew not that I healed them.
4. I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love; and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat before them.
5. He shall not return into the land of Egypt; but the Assyrian shall be his king, because they refused to return.