1. When Yisroel was a na'ar (child), I loved him, and called Beni (My son) out of Mitzrayim [Mt 2:15].
2. The more I called them, the more they went from Me; they sacrificed unto Ba'alim, and burned incense to peselim (graven images).
3. Yet it was I who taught Ephrayim to walk, taking them by their zero'ot; but they knew not that it was I who healed them.
4. I drew them with cords of man, with bands of ahavah; and I was to them as they that ease the ol (yoke) on their jaws, and I bent down to feed them.
5. Will they not return into Eretz Mitzrayim? And will not the Assyrian be his melech, because they refused to make teshuvah.