Hosea 11

¹“When Israel was a child, then I loved him,

²They called to them, so they went from them.

³Yet I taught Ephraim to walk.

⁴I drew them with cords of a man, with ties of love;

⁵“They won’t return into the land of Egypt;

⁶The sword will fall on their cities,

⁷My people are determined to turn from me.

⁸“How can I give you up, Ephraim?

⁹I will not execute the fierceness of my anger.

¹⁰They will walk after Yahweh,

¹¹They will come trembling like a bird out of Egypt,

¹²Ephraim surrounds me with falsehood,