Hosea 11:3

Translations

Modern

It was I who taught Ephraim to walk, taking them by the arms, but they never realized that it was I who healed them.

Traditional

I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms; but they knew not that I healed them.

Literal

And I had guided the feet of Ephraim, taking them by the arms; they did not know that it was I who healed them.

Latin

Et ego quasi nutritius Ephraim: portabam eos in brachiis meis, et nescierunt quod curarem eos.

Original

Hebrew

English

It was I who taught Ephraim to walk, taking them by the arms, but they never realized that it was I who healed them.

Notes

Hosea 11:3–4

God cared for the young nation of Israel with kindness and love.

Hosea 11:1–11

God grieved over Israel’s unfaithfulness. Even after all he had done for them, Israel had turned into a rebellious people. Justice required serious punishment, but the final decision about Israel’s future would come from God’s tender compassion for his people, not from an abstract rule.

Theme notes and profiles

God’s Covenant Love God’s Judgment of His People

Events

Prophecies of Hosea

Related verses

Jeremiah 30:17
But I will restore your health and heal your wounds, declares the LORD, because they call you an outcast, Zion, for whom no one cares.”
Exodus 15:26
…saying, “If you will listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His eyes, and pay attention to His commands, and keep all His statutes, then I will not bring on you any of the diseases I inflicted on the Egyptians. For I am the LORD who heals you.”
Deuteronomy 1:31
…and in the wilderness, where the LORD your God carried you, as a man carries his son, all the way by which you traveled until you reached this place.”
Hosea 7:15
Although I trained and strengthened their arms, they plot evil against Me.
Isaiah 30:26
The light of the moon will be as bright as the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter—like the light of seven days—on the day that the LORD binds up the brokenness of His people and heals the wounds He has inflicted.
Deuteronomy 32:10–12
He found him in a desert land, in a barren, howling wilderness; He surrounded him, He instructed him, He guarded him as the apple of His eye.
Isaiah 46:3
“Listen to Me, O house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel, who have been sustained from the womb, carried along since birth.
Deuteronomy 8:2
Remember that these forty years the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness, so that He might humble you and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep His commandments.
Hosea 2:8
For she does not acknowledge that it was I who gave her grain, new wine, and oil, who lavished on her silver and gold—which they crafted for Baal.
Hosea 14:4
I will heal their apostasy; I will freely love them, for My anger has turned away from them.
Exodus 23:25
So you shall serve the LORD your God, and He will bless your bread and your water. And I will take away sickness from among you.
Hosea 7:1
When I heal Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim will be exposed, as well as the crimes of Samaria. For they practice deceit and thieves break in; bandits raid in the streets.

Parallels

Matthew 2:13–15

People

Ephraim: Second son of Joseph, and a tribe of Israel

Glossary

Hosea, Book of Love Mercy Prophecy

Topics

Blessing: Temporal, from God Children: Taught to Walk God: Love of, Exemplified Ingratitude of Man to God

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