“I(A) taught Ephraim to walk,
Taking them by [a]their arms;
But they did not know that (B)I healed them.

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  1. Hosea 11:3 Some Heb. mss., LXX, Syr., Vg. My arms

17 (A)For I will restore health to you
And heal you of your wounds,’ says the Lord,
‘Because they called you an outcast saying:
“This is Zion;
No one seeks her.” ’

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31 and in the wilderness where you saw how the Lord your God carried you, as a (A)man carries his son, in all the way that you went until you came to this place.’

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15 Though I disciplined and strengthened their arms,
Yet they devise evil against Me;

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26 and said, (A)“If you diligently heed the voice of the Lord your God and do what is right in His sight, give ear to His commandments and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the (B)diseases on you which I have brought on the Egyptians. For I am the Lord (C)who heals you.”

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18 Now (A)for a time of about forty years He put up with their ways in the wilderness.

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“I will heal their (A)backsliding,
I will (B)love them freely,
For My anger has turned away from him.

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Israel Has Rebelled Against God

“When I would have healed Israel,
Then the iniquity of Ephraim was uncovered,
And the wickedness of Samaria.
For (A)they have committed fraud;
A thief comes in;
A band of robbers [a]takes spoil outside.

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  1. Hosea 7:1 plunders

(A)In all their affliction He was [a]afflicted,
(B)And the Angel of His Presence saved them;
(C)In His love and in His pity He redeemed them;
And (D)He bore them and carried them
All the days of old.

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  1. Isaiah 63:9 Kt., LXX, Syr. not afflicted

“Listen to Me, O house of Jacob,
And all the remnant of the house of Israel,
(A)Who have been upheld by Me from [a]birth,
Who have been carried from the womb:

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  1. Isaiah 46:3 Lit. the belly

26 Moreover (A)the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun,
And the light of the sun will be sevenfold,
As the light of seven days,
In the day that the Lord binds up the bruise of His people
And heals the stroke of their wound.

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25 “So you shall (A)serve the Lord your God, and (B)He will bless your bread and your water. And (C)I will take sickness away from the midst of you.

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For she did not (A)know
That I gave her grain, new wine, and oil,
And multiplied her silver and gold—
Which they prepared for Baal.

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22 Is there no (A)balm in Gilead,
Is there no physician there?
Why then is there no recovery
For the health of the daughter of my people?

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The Wickedness of Judah

(A)Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth!
For the Lord has spoken:
“I have nourished and brought up children,
And they have rebelled against Me;

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10 “He found him (A)in a desert land
And in the wasteland, a howling wilderness;
He encircled him, He instructed him,
He (B)kept him as the [a]apple of His eye.
11 (C)As an eagle stirs up its nest,
Hovers over its young,
Spreading out its wings, taking them up,
Carrying them on its wings,
12 So the Lord alone led him,
And there was no foreign god with him.

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  1. Deuteronomy 32:10 pupil

And you shall remember that the Lord your God (A)led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you and (B)test you, (C)to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not.

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11 (A)So Moses said to the Lord, “Why have You afflicted Your servant? And why have I not found favor in Your sight, that You have laid the [a]burden of all these people on me? 12 Did I conceive all these people? Did I beget them, that You should say to me, (B)‘Carry them in your bosom, as a (C)guardian carries a nursing child,’ to the land which You (D)swore[b] to their fathers?

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  1. Numbers 11:11 responsibility
  2. Numbers 11:12 solemnly promised

(A)‘You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how (B)I [a]bore you on eagles’ wings and brought you to Myself.

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  1. Exodus 19:4 sustained

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