Osee 11

¹As the morning passed, hath the king of Israel passed away. Because Israel was a child, and I loved him: & out of Ægypt I called my son.

²They called them, so they departed from their face: they immolated to Baalim, and sacrificed to idols.

³And I as it were the nurse of Ephraim, carried them in mine arms: and they knew not that I cured them.

⁴In the cords of Adam I will draw them, in the bands of charity: and I will be to them as lifting up the yoke upon their cheeks: and I declined to him that he might eat.

⁵He shall not return into the Land of Ægypt, and Assur he his king: because they would not convert.

⁶The sword hath begun in his cities, and it shall consume his elect, and shall eat their heads.

⁷And my people shall hang upon my return: but a yoke shall be put upon them together, which shall not be taken away.

⁸How shall I give thee Ephraim, protect thee Israel? How shall I give thee as Adama, lay thee as Seboim? My heart is turned within, my repentance is disturbed together.

⁹I will not do the fury of my wrath: I will not return to destroy Ephraim: because I am God, and not man: in the midst of thee the Holy one, and I will not enter into the city.

¹⁰They shall walk after our Lord, as a lion will he roar: because he will roar, and the children of the sea shall fear.

¹¹And they shall fly away as a bird out of Ægypt, and as a dove out of the Land of the Assyrians: and I will place them in their houses, saith our Lord.

¹²Ephraim hath compassed me in denying, and the house of Israel in deceit: but Judas a witness is descended with God, and with the saints, faithful.