# Hosea 11 
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1. When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son. 
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2. The more they were called, the more they went away; they kept sacrificing to the Baals and burning offerings to idols. 
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3. Yet it was I who taught Ephraim to walk; I took them up by their arms, but they did not know that I healed them. 
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4. I led them with cords of kindness, with the bands of love, and I became to them as one who eases the yoke on their jaws, and I bent down to them and fed them. 
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5. They shall not return to the land of Egypt, but Assyria shall be their king, because they have refused to return to me. 
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6. The sword shall rage against their cities, consume the bars of their gates, and devour them because of their own counsels. 
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7. My people are bent on turning away from me, and though they call out to the Most High, he shall not raise them up at all. 
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8. How can I give you up, O Ephraim? How can I hand you over, O Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart recoils within me; my compassion grows warm and tender. 
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9. I will not execute my burning anger; I will not again destroy Ephraim; for I am God and not a man, the Holy One in your midst, and I will not come in wrath. 
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10. They shall go after the LORD; he will roar like a lion; when he roars, his children shall come trembling from the west; 
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11. they shall come trembling like birds from Egypt, and like doves from the land of Assyria, and I will return them to their homes, declares the LORD. 
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12. Ephraim has surrounded me with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit, but Judah still walks with God and is faithful to the Holy One. 

(ESV)