1. As the morning passeth, so hath the king of Israel passed away because Israel was a child, and I loved him: and I called my son out of Egypt.
2. As they called them, they went away from before their face: they offered victims to Baalim, and sacrificed to idols.
3. And I was like a foster father to Ephraim, I carried them in my arms: and they knew not that I healed them.
4. I will draw them with the cords of Adam, with the bands of love: and I will be to them as one that taketh off the yoke on their jaws: and I put his meat to him that he might eat.
5. He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king: because they would not be converted.
6. The sword hath begun in his cities, and it shall consume his chosen men, and shall devour their heads.