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.
6. And the sword shall fall upon his cities, and shall consume his bars, and devour them, because of their own counsels.
7. And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they call them to him that is on high, none at all will exalt him.