1. “When Israel was a youth I loved him, and out of Egypt I called My son.
2. They called out to them but they departed from their presence. They kept sacrificing to the Baalim and burning incense up to idols.
3. Yet it was I who taught Ephraim to walk. I took them on My arms. But they never acknowledged that I had healed them.
4. With human cords I was drawing them, with bonds of love, and I became to them as One lifting a yoke from their jaws. I bent down to them and fed them.