Hosea 11:2-4

Revised Standard Version

³ Yet it was I who taught E′phraim to walk,
    I took them up in my^[c] arms;
    but they did not know that I healed them.
⁴ I led them with cords of compassion,^[d]
    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.