Hosea 11:2-6

The more they called them, The more they went away from them; They kept sacrificing to the Baals And burning incense to idols.

Yet it is I who taught Ephraim to walk, I took them in My arms; But they did not know that I healed them.

I pulled them along with cords of a man, with ropes of love, And I became to them as one who lifts the yoke from their jaws; And I bent down and fed them.

They will not return to the land of Egypt; But Assyria—he will be their king Because they refused to return to Me.

And the sword will whirl against their cities, And will destroy their oracle priests And consume them, because of their counsels.