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Hosea 11:3-5
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Hosea 11:3-5
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3 “But I was the one who taught Ephraim to walk.
I took the Israelites in my arms.
I healed them,
but they don’t know that.
4 I led them with ropes,[a]
but they were ropes of love.
I was like a person who set them free.[b]
I bent down and fed them.
5 “The Israelites will not go back to Egypt. The king of Assyria will become their king, because they refused to turn back to God.
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- Hosea 11:4 ropes The Hebrew says, “ropes of a man.”
- Hosea 11:4 set them free Literally, “lifted the yoke from their jaws.”
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