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God’s Love for Israel

11 When Israel was a child, I loved him,
and out of Egypt I called my son.

The more I called to them,
    the more they went away from me.[a]
    They kept sacrificing to the Baals
    and burning incense to idols.
Yet I was the one who taught Ephraim to walk.
    I took them in my arms,[b]
    but they did not realize that it was I who healed them.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 11:2 A variant reading is the more they called them, the more they went away from them.
  2. Hosea 11:3 The text of the pronouns in this verse is uncertain. The translation follows the Greek Old Testament.