Hosea 11:2-4
Lexham English Bible
2 When I called[a] them, they went from my face.[b]
They sacrificed to the Baals, and they sacrificed to idols.
3 And I myself taught Ephraim to walk;
I took them[c] in my[d] arms,
but they did not know that I healed them.
4 I drew them with human ties,[e]
with the bands of love.
I was to them like one who lifted up[f] a yoke on their jaws,[g]
though I bent down to them[h] and let them[i] eat.
Footnotes
- Hosea 11:2 Hebrew “When they called”; the LXX and modern translations read “When I called”
- Hosea 11:2 Hebrew “their face”
- Hosea 11:3 Hebrew uncertain
- Hosea 11:3 Hebrew “his”
- Hosea 11:4 Literally “ropes of a human”
- Hosea 11:4 Or “like one who imposed”
- Hosea 11:4 Or “infants to their cheeks”
- Hosea 11:4 Hebrew “him”
- Hosea 11:4 Hebrew “him”
Hosea 11:2-4
New American Standard Bible
2 The more [a](A)they called them,
The more they went away from [b]them;
They kept (B)sacrificing to the Baals
And (C)burning incense to idols.
3 Yet it is I who taught Ephraim to walk,
[c]I (D)took them in My arms;
But they did not know that I (E)healed them.
4 I (F)pulled them along with cords of a man, with ropes of love,
And (G)I became to them as one who lifts the yoke from their jaws;
And I bent down and (H)fed them.
Footnotes
- Hosea 11:2 I.e., God’s prophets
- Hosea 11:2 I.e., God’s prophets
- Hosea 11:3 As in ancient versions; MT He...His
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