Hosea 11:1-4

1When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son.

2The more they were called, the more they went away; they kept sacrificing to the Baals and burning offerings to idols.

3Yet it was I who taught Ephraim to walk; I took them up by their arms, but they did not know that I healed them.

4I led them with cords of kindness, with the bands of love, and I became to them as one who eases the yoke on their jaws, and I bent down to them and fed them.