1“When Israel was a child, then I loved him,
2They called to them, so they went from them.
3Yet I taught Ephraim to walk.
4I drew them with cords of a man, with ties of love;
5“They won’t return into the land of Egypt;
6The sword will fall on their cities,
7My people are determined to turn from me.
8“How can I give you up, Ephraim?
9I will not execute the fierceness of my anger.
10They will walk after the LORD,
11They will come trembling like a bird out of Egypt,
12Ephraim surrounds me with falsehood,