“When Israel was a child, then I loved him, Mat 2:15Exo 4:22Hos 13:4Hos 2:15Jer 2:2Deu 7:7Ezk 16:6Hos 12:13
and called my son out of Egypt.
They called to them, so they went from them. Hos 2:13Jer 18:15Isa 65:72Ki 17:13-16Act 7:51Hos 11:7Hos 13:1-2Jhn 3:19
They sacrificed to the Baals,
and burned incense to engraved images.
Yet I taught Ephraim to walk. Deu 1:31Exo 15:26Jer 30:17Hos 7:15Act 13:18Deu 32:10-12Deu 8:2Exo 23:25
I took them by their arms,
but they didn’t know that I healed them.
I drew them with cords of a man, with ties of love; Jhn 12:32Lev 26:132Co 5:14Isa 63:9Jer 31:2-32Sa 7:14Hos 2:8Psa 78:23-25
and I was to them like those who lift up the yoke on their necks;
and I bent down to him and I fed him.
“They won’t return into the land of Egypt; Hos 7:16Hos 8:132Ki 17:13-14Hos 10:6Hos 9:32Ki 15:192Ki 15:292Ki 17:3-6
but the Assyrian will be their king,
because they refused to repent.
The sword will fall on their cities, Hos 13:16Hos 10:14Hos 10:6Deu 28:52Deu 32:25Ezk 15:2-7Ezk 20:47Isa 18:5
and will destroy the bars of their gates,
and will put an end to their plans.
My people are determined to turn from me. Jer 8:5Amo 5:14-15Amo 5:4-6Hos 11:2Hos 14:4Hos 7:16Jer 3:11Jer 3:6-8
Though they call to the Most High,
he certainly won’t exalt them.
“How can I give you up, Ephraim? Jer 31:20Hos 6:4Mat 23:37Deu 32:36Deu 29:23Jud 1:72Sa 24:16Amo 4:11
How can I hand you over, Israel?
How can I make you like Admah?
How can I make you like Zeboiim?
My heart is turned within me,
my compassion is aroused.
I will not execute the fierceness of my anger. Num 23:19Isa 55:8-9Mic 7:18-20Isa 12:6Jer 30:11Ezk 37:27-28Mal 3:6Hos 14:4
I will not return to destroy Ephraim,
for I am God, and not man—the Holy One among you.
I will not come in wrath.
They will walk after the LORD, Jol 3:16Amo 1:2Isa 31:4Jer 25:30Isa 64:2Jer 31:92Pe 2:10Act 24:25
who will roar like a lion;
for he will roar, and the children will come trembling from the west.
They will come trembling like a bird out of Egypt, Isa 11:11Isa 60:8Zec 10:10Amo 9:14-15Hos 7:11Ezk 28:25-26Oba 1:17Ezk 36:33-34
and like a dove out of the land of Assyria;
and I will settle them in their houses,” says the LORD.
Ephraim surrounds me with falsehood, 1Co 6:22Ch 29:1-32Hos 12:7Isa 29:13Isa 44:20Rev 1:6Rev 3:212Ki 18:4-7
and the house of Israel with deceit.
Judah still strays from God,
and is unfaithful to the Holy One.