The Lord’s Love for Israel

11 When Israel was a child, I loved him,(A)
and out of Egypt I called my son.(B)
Israel called to the Egyptians(C)
even as Israel was leaving them.[a]
They kept sacrificing to the Baals(D)
and burning offerings to idols.(E)
It was I who taught Ephraim to walk,(F)
taking them[b] by the hand,[c](G)
but they never knew that I healed them.(H)

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Footnotes

  1. 11:2 Lit They called to them; thus they went from before them
  2. 11:3 LXX, Syr, Vg; MT reads him
  3. 11:3 Lit them on his arms

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