Hosea 11

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¹When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt. ✦ ²As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images. ✦ ³I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms; but they knew not that I healed them. ✦ ⁴I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them. ✦ ⁵He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king, because they refused to return. ✦ ⁶And the sword shall abide on his cities, and shall consume his branches, and devour them, because of their own counsels. ✦ ⁷And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him. ✦ ⁸How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? how shall I deliver thee, Israel? how shall I make thee as Admah? how shall I set thee as Zeboim? mine heart is turned within me, my repentings are kindled together. ✦ ⁹I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of thee: and I will not enter into the city. ✦ ¹⁰They shall walk after the LORD: he shall roar like a lion: when he shall roar, then the children shall tremble from the west. ✦ ¹¹They shall tremble as a bird out of Egypt, and as a dove out of the land of Assyria: and I will place them in their houses, saith the LORD. ✦ ¹²Ephraim compasseth me about with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit: but Judah yet ruleth with God, and is faithful with the saints. ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Hos 7 ·6 Jer 31 ·5 Ezek 20 ·4 Deut 32 ·4 Ps 78 ·4 Hos 2 ·4 Hos 12 ·4 2 Kgs 17 ·3

Christ at the center

God's relentless love for an unfaithful bride dramatizes the gospel: 'Out of Egypt I called my son' is fulfilled in Jesus, who redeems an adulterous people at his own cost.

How Hosea 11 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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