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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Hosea 11 ESV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/hosea/11.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/hosea/11-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ESV</a> > Hosea 11</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" 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">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/hosea/11.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>’s Love for Israel</p><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/11-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">When Israel was a child, I loved him,</span><br /><span class="indent">and out of Egypt I called my son.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/11-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">The more they were called,</span><br /><span class="indent">the more they went away;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">they kept sacrificing to the Baals</span><br /><span class="indent">and burning offerings to idols.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/11-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Yet it was I who taught Ephraim to walk;</span><br /><span class="indent">I took them up by their arms,</span><br /><span class="indent">but they did not know that I healed them.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/11-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I led them with cords of kindness,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or humaneness; Hebrew man">a</a></sup></span></span><br /><span class="indent">with the bands of love,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">and I became to them as one who eases the yoke on their jaws,</span><br /><span class="indent">and I bent down to them and fed them.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/11-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">They shall not<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or surely">b</a></sup></span> return to the land of Egypt,</span><br /><span class="indent">but Assyria shall be their king,</span><br /><span class="indent">because they have refused to return to me.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/11-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">The sword shall rage against their cities,</span><br /><span class="indent">consume the bars of their gates,</span><br /><span class="indent">and devour them because of their own counsels.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/11-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">My people are bent on turning away from me,</span><br /><span class="indent">and though they call out to the Most High,</span><br /><span class="indent">he shall not raise them up at all.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/11-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">How can I give you up, O Ephraim?</span><br /><span class="indent">How can I hand you over, O Israel?</span><br /><span class="ln-group">How can I make you like Admah?</span><br /><span class="indent">How can I treat you like Zeboiim?</span><br /><span class="ln-group">My heart recoils within me;</span><br /><span class="indent">my compassion grows warm and tender.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/11-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I will not execute my burning anger;</span><br /><span class="indent">I will not again destroy Ephraim;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">for I am God and not a man,</span><br /><span class="indent">the Holy One in your midst,</span><br /><span class="indent">and I will not come in wrath.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or into the city">c</a></sup></span></span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/11-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">They shall go after the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>;</span><br /><span class="indent">he will roar like a lion;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">when he roars,</span><br /><span class="indent">his children shall come trembling from the west;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/11-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">they shall come trembling like birds from Egypt,</span><br /><span class="indent">and like doves from the land of Assyria,</span><br /><span class="indent">and I will return them to their homes, declares the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/11-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="ln-group"><span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Ch 12:1 in Hebrew">d</a></sup></span> Ephraim has surrounded me with lies,</span><br /><span class="indent">and the house of Israel with deceit,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">but Judah still walks with God</span><br /><span class="indent">and is faithful to the Holy One.</span><br /><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">4</span> Or <i>humaneness</i>; Hebrew <i>man</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">5</span> Or <i>surely</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">9</span> Or <i>into the city</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">12</span> Ch 12:1 in Hebrew<br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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