Hosea 11:4

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁴I led them with cords of human kindness,
    with bands of love.
I was to them like those
    who lift infants to their cheeks.^[a]
    I bent down to them and fed them.

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Hosea 11:4 Or who ease the yoke on their jaws

Hosea 11:4 in all English translations

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)

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