1. When Israel was a youth I loved him, And out of Egypt I called My son.
2. The more they called them, The more they went from them; They kept sacrificing to the Baals And burning incense to idols.
3. Yet it is I who taught Ephraim to walk, I took them in My arms; But they did not know that I healed them.
4. I led them with cords of a man, with bonds of love, And I became to them as one who lifts the yoke from their jaws; And I bent down and fed them.
5. They will not return to the land of Egypt; But Assyria-he will be their king Because they refused to return to Me.