Hosea 11:1-3

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God’s Compassion Despite Israel’s Ingratitude

11 When Israel was a child, I loved him,
    and out of Egypt I called my son.
²The more I^[a] called them,
    the more they went from me;^[b]
they kept sacrificing to the Ba′als,
    and burning incense to idols.

³Yet it was I who taught E′phraim to walk,
I took them up in my^[c] arms;
but they did not know that I healed them.

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Footnotes

Hosea 11:2 Gk: Heb they
Hosea 11:2 Gk: Heb them
Hosea 11:3 Gk Syr Vg: Heb his

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