Hosea 11:2-4

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

² The more [the prophets] called to them, the more they went from them; they kept sacrificing to the Baals and burning incense to the graven images.

³ Yet I taught Ephraim to walk, taking them by their arms or taking them up in My arms, but they did not know that I healed them.

⁴ I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love, and I was to them as one who lifts up and eases the yoke over their cheeks, and I bent down to them and gently laid food before them.