[1] When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt. [2] As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images. [3] Ephraim taking them by their arms; but they knew not that I healed [4] I 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, meat unto them.