Hosea 11:3
1 When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called My son.
2 But the more I called Israel, the farther they departed from Me. They sacrificed to the Baals and burned incense to carved images.
It was I who taught Ephraim to walk, taking them in My arms, but they never realized that it was I who healed them.
4 I led them with cords of kindness, with ropes of love; I lifted the yoke from their necks and bent down to feed them.
5 Will they not return to the land of Egypt and be ruled by Assyria because they refused to repent?
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- It was I who taught Ephraim to walk, taking them in My arms, but they never realized that it was I who healed them.
- KJV
- I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms; but they knew not that I healed them.
- WEB
- Yet I taught Ephraim to walk. I took them by their arms, but they didn’t know that I healed them.
- ASV
- Yet I taught Ephraim to walk; I took them on my arms; but they knew not that I healed them.
- DARBY
- And I it was that taught Ephraim to walk, He took them upon his arms, but they knew not that I healed them.
- BLB
- And I had guided the feet of Ephraim, taking them by the arms; they did not know that [it was] I [who] healed them.
- ÅB
- Og det var da jeg som lærte Efra'im å gå og tok dem på mine armer; men de skjønte ikke at jeg legte dem.
- OTB
- Men det var jeg som lærte Efraim å gå,
jeg tok dem i mine armer;
men de skjønte ikke at jeg helbredet dem. - B1930
- Og det var da jeg som lærte Efra'im å gå og tok dem på mine armer; men de skjønte ikke at jeg lægte dem.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Jeremiah 30:17
But I will restore your health and heal your wounds, declares the LORD, because they call you an outcast, Zion, for whom no one cares.”
Read in contextExodus 15:26
saying, “If you will listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His eyes, and pay attention to His commands, and keep all His statutes, then I will not bring on you any of the diseases I inflicted on the Egyptians. For I am the LORD who heals you.”
Read in contextDeuteronomy 1:31
and in the wilderness, where the LORD your God carried you, as a man carries his son, all the way by which you traveled until you reached this place.”
Read in contextHosea 7:15
Although I trained and strengthened their arms, they plot evil against Me.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 8:2
Remember that these forty years the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness, so that He might humble you and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep His commandments.
Read in contextIsaiah 30:26
The light of the moon will be as bright as the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter—like the light of seven days—on the day that the LORD binds up the brokenness of His people and heals the wounds He has inflicted.
Read in contextIsaiah 46:3
“Listen to Me, O house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel, who have been sustained from the womb, carried along since birth.
Read in contextHosea 2:8
For she does not acknowledge that it was I who gave her grain, new wine, and oil, who lavished on her silver and gold— which they crafted for Baal.
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