Hosea 11:1-3

Amplified Bible

11 When Israel was a child [a young nation], I loved him,
And I called My son out of Egypt.^(A)
2 
The more they [the prophets] called them [to repentance and obedience],
The more they went away from them;
They kept sacrificing to the Baals
And burning incense to the carved images.
³ 
Yet it is I who taught Ephraim to walk,
Taking them in My arms [nurturing the young nation];
But they did not know that I healed them.