“When Israel was a child, then I loved him,
And out of Egypt I called my Son.1
2They called to them, so they went from them.
They sacrificed to the Baals,
And burned incense to engraved images.
3Yet I taught Ephraim to walk.
I took them by their arms;
But they did not know that I healed them.
4I drew them with cords of a man, with ties of love;
And I was to them like those who lift up the yoke on their necks;
And I bent down to him and I fed him.
5“They will not return into the land of Egypt;
But the Assyrian will be their king,
Because they refused to repent.
6The sword will fall on their cities,
And will consume their gate bars,
And will put an end to their plans.
7My people are determined to turn from me.
Though they call to the Most High,
He certainly will not exalt them.
8“How can I give you up, Ephraim?
How can I hand you over, Israel?
How can I make you like Admah?
How can I make you like Zeboiim?
My heart is turned within me,
My compassion is aroused.
9I will not execute the fierceness of my anger.
I will not return to destroy Ephraim:
For I am God, and not man; the Holy One among you;
And I will not come in wrath.
10They will walk after YAHWEH,
Who will roar like a lion;
For he will roar, and the children will come trembling from the west.
11They will come trembling like a bird out of Egypt,
And like a dove out of the land of Assyria;
And I will settle them in their houses,” says YAHWEH2.
12Ephraim surrounds me with falsehood,
And the house of Israel with deceit;
And Judah still is unruly with God,
And is unfaithful to the Holy One.
- 11:1 Out of Egypt I called my Son, quoted in the Injil, Matthew 2:15 in regard to the Prophet ‘ISA Ibn Maryam. When ‘ISA was a small child, the angel of the Lord warned his foster-father Yusuf about great danger in a dream, as Matthew 2:13-15 says: behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Yusuf in a dream, saying, “Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and stay there until I tell you, for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.” He arose and took the young child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt, and was there until the death of Herod; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, “Out of Egypt I called my Son.” ↩︎
- 11:10,11 YAHWEH, the name God revealed to Prophet Musa in the Taurat, Exodus 3:15 – God said moreover to Musa, “You shall tell Bani-Israel this, ‘YAHWEH, the God of your fathers, the God of Ibrahim, the God of Ishaq, and the God of Yaqub, has sent me to you.’ This is my Name forever, and this is how I am to be remembered to all generations.” ↩︎