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The more I called them,[a] the farther they went away.
    They sacrificed to other gods—the Baals,
        and they burned incense to idols.
I was the one who taught the people of Ephraim to walk.[b]
    I took them by the hand.
        But they didn’t realize that I had healed them.
I led them with cords of human kindness, with ropes of love.
    I removed the yokes[c] from their necks.
        I bent down and fed them.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 11:2 Greek; Masoretic Text “The more they called them.”
  2. Hosea 11:3 Or “I was the one who guided Ephraim.”
  3. Hosea 11:4 A yoke is a wooden bar placed over the necks of work animals so that they can pull plows or carts.

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