11 When Israel was a child, then I loved him,
and called my son out of Egypt.
² As they called them, so they went from them:
they sacrificed unto Baalim,
and burned incense to graven images.
³ I taught Ephraim also to go,
taking them by their arms;
but they knew not that I healed them.
⁴ I drew them with cords of a man,
with bands of love:
and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws,
and I laid meat unto them.

⁵ He shall not return into the land of Egypt,
but the Assyrian shall be his king,
because they refused to return.
⁶ And the sword shall abide on his cities,
and shall consume his branches, and devour them,
because of their own counsels.
⁷ And my people are bent to backsliding from me:
though they called them to the most High,
none at all would exalt him.