Hosea 11:1-12
11 * When Israel was a child I loved him, and I called his sons out of Egypt.
2 ** The more I called them, the more they went off from me: they sacrificed to the Baals, they made burnings to the carvings.
3 And I had taught Ephraim to walk, taken them in my arms; but they did not know I healed them.
4 *** I drew them with human lines, with ropes of love, and was to them like one that lifts up a yoke on their cheeks; and I bent down to it, mastered it.
5 He goes back to Egypt, and Assyria is his king, because they refused to come back.
6 ** And swords dance in his cities and annihilate his bragging, and their designs eat them up.
7 *** And his people are dangling with his apostasies; they call him upward, not a bit does he mount.
8 * How am I to give you away, Ephraim, to hand you over, Israel? How am I to make you like Admah, render you like Seboim? the thought overwhelms me, my sympathies are all in a fever.
9 * I will not act out my anger, I will not go back to making away with Ephraim; for I am deity, not man, a Holy one in your midst, and will not come in passion.
10 They shall go after Jehovah like a lion that roars; for he will roar, and sons will be startled from the sea,
11 they will be startled from Egypt like a sparrow and from Assyria like a pigeon, and I will settle them in their homes, quoth Jehovah.
12 * 12:1Ephraim encircles me with deceit, and the house of Israel with fraud, but Judah is still ranging with Deity and faithful with the Holy.
Footnotes
^ 11:1 Var. my son
^ 11:2 Var. The more they called them
^ 11:2 Or they sacrifice to the Baals, they make
^ 11:4 Susp.
^ 11:4 Conj. off their cheeks
^ 11:4-5 Var. bent down to it, gave food. He shall not go back to
^ 11:6 Or annihilate his limbs
^ 11:6 Codd.* and shall eat from their designs Var. and they shall eat from their designs Conj. and shall eat their citadels
^ 11:7 Susp.
^ 11:7 Conj. are tired out with
^ 11:7 Lit. he altogether does not mount (codd.* does not uplift)
^ 11:8 Lit. my heart overwhelms me
^ 11:9 (end) Susp.
^ 12:1 (last half) Susp.
