1. When Israel was a boy, 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. Even with all this I guided the feet of this same Ephraim, taking them by their arms; but they did not know that I cared for them.
4. I drew them with human cords, with bands of love, and I was to them as those that raise the yoke from upon their cheeks, and I fed them.
5. He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king because they refused to be converted.