Hosea 11:2-4

English Standard Version

³ Yet it was ^(C)I who taught Ephraim to walk;
    I took them up by their arms,
    but they did not know that ^(D)I healed them.
^4 (E)I led them with cords of kindness,^[a]
    with the bands of love,
and ^(F)I became to them as one who eases the yoke on their jaws,
    and ^(G)I bent down to them and fed them.