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Hosea 11:1-7

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God Yearns over His People

1When Israel was a youth I loved him,
And out of Egypt I called My son.
2The more they called them,
The more they went away from them;
They kept sacrificing to the Baals
And burning incense to idols.
3Yet it is I who taught Ephraim to walk,
I took them in My arms;
But they did not know that I healed them.
4I pulled them along with cords of a man, with ropes of love,
And I became to them as one who lifts the yoke from their jaws;
And I bent down and fed them.
5They will not return to the land of Egypt;
But Assyria—he will be their king
Because they refused to return to Me.
6And the sword will whirl against their cities,
And will destroy their oracle priests
And consume them, because of their counsels.
7So My people are determined to turn from Me.
Though they call them to the One on high,
None at all exalts Him.