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align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../hosea/10.htm" title="Hosea 10">◄</a> Hosea 11 <a href="../hosea/12.htm" title="Hosea 12">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><div class="text-html"> <h3><span id="en" class="text">God’s Compassion Despite Israel’s Ingratitude</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="chapter-2"><span class="text"><span class="versenum">1</span>When Israel was a child, I loved him,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and out of Egypt I called my son.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span>The more I<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-26515a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> called them,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">the more they went from me;<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-26515b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span></span></span><br /><span class="text">they kept sacrificing to the Baals,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and offering incense to idols.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>Yet it was I who taught Ephraim to walk,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">I took them up in my<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-26516c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> arms;</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">but they did not know that I healed them.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>I led them with cords of human kindness,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">with bands of love.</span></span><br /><span class="text">I was to them like those</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">who lift infants to their cheeks.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-26517d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>]</span></span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">I bent down to them and fed them.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>They shall return to the land of Egypt,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and Assyria shall be their king,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">because they have refused to return to me.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>The sword rages in their cities,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">it consumes their oracle-priests,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and devours because of their schemes.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>My people are bent on turning away from me.</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">To the Most High they call,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">but he does not raise them up at all.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-26520e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote e">e</a>]</span></span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>How can I give you up, Ephraim?</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">How can I hand you over, O Israel?</span></span><br /><span class="text">How can I make you like Admah?</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">How can I treat you like Zeboiim?</span></span><br /><span class="text">My heart recoils within me;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">my compassion grows warm and tender.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>I will not execute my fierce anger;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">I will not again destroy Ephraim;</span></span><br /><span class="text">for I am God and no mortal,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">the Holy One in your midst,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and I will not come in wrath.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-26522f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote f">f</a>]</span></span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>They shall go after the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">who roars like a lion;</span></span><br /><span class="text">when he roars,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">his children shall come trembling from the west.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>They shall come trembling like birds from Egypt,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and like doves from the land of Assyria;</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and I will return them to their homes, says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span><span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-26525g" title="See footnote g">g</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote g">g</a>]</span> Ephraim has surrounded me with lies,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and the house of Israel with deceit;</span></span><br /><span class="text">but Judah still walks<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-26525h" title="See footnote h">h</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote h">h</a>]</span> with God,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and is faithful to the Holy One.</span></span></p> </div><A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Hosea 11:2">Hosea 11:2</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk: Heb <i>they</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Hosea 11:2">Hosea 11:2</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk: Heb <i>them</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Hosea 11:3">Hosea 11:3</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk Syr Vg: Heb <i>his</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Hosea 11:4">Hosea 11:4</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>who ease the yoke on their jaws</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Hosea 11:7">Hosea 11:7</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Meaning of Heb uncertain</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Hosea 11:9">Hosea 11:9</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Meaning of Heb uncertain</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Hosea 11:12">Hosea 11:12</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Ch 12.1 in Heb</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Hosea 11:12">Hosea 11:12</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>roams</i> or <i>rules</i></span></li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations 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