Hosea 11:3
New International Version
It was I who taught Ephraim to walk, taking them by the arms; but they did not realize it was I who healed them.

New Living Translation
I myself taught Israel how to walk, leading him along by the hand. But he doesn’t know or even care that it was I who took care of him.

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

Berean Standard Bible
It was I who taught Ephraim to walk, taking them in My arms, but they never realized that it was I who healed them.

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

New King James Version
“I taught Ephraim to walk, Taking them by their arms; But they did not know that I healed them.

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

NASB 1995
Yet it is I who taught Ephraim to walk, I took them in My arms; But they did not know that I healed them.

NASB 1977
Yet it is I who taught Ephraim to walk, I took them in My arms; But they did not know that I healed them.

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

Amplified Bible
Yet it is I who taught Ephraim to walk, Taking them in My arms [nurturing the young nation]; But they did not know that I healed them.

Christian Standard Bible
It was I who taught Ephraim to walk, taking them by the hand, but they never knew that I healed them.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
It was I who taught Ephraim to walk, taking them in My arms, but they never knew that I healed them.

American Standard Version
Yet I taught Ephraim to walk; I took them on my arms; but they knew not that I healed them.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And I led Aphreim and I took them on my arms and they have not known that I have healed them

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Yet I bound the feet of Ephraim, I took him on my arm; but they knew not that I healed them.

Contemporary English Version
I took Israel by the arm and taught them to walk. But they would not admit that I was the one who had healed them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I was like a foster father to Ephraim, I carried them in my arms: and they knew not that I healed them.

English Revised Version
Yet I taught Ephraim to go; I took them on my arms; but they knew not that I healed them.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
I was the one who taught the people of Ephraim to walk. I took them by the hand. But they didn't realize that I had healed them.

Good News Translation
Yet I was the one who taught Israel to walk. I took my people up in my arms, but they did not acknowledge that I took care of them.

International Standard Version
Yet it was I who taught Ephraim to walk, supporting them by their arms, but they never knew that I was healing them.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And I, I taught Ephraim to walk, Taking them by their arms; But they knew not that I healed them.

Literal Standard Version
And I have caused Ephraim to go on foot, | Taking them by their arms, | And they have not known that I strengthened them.

Majority Standard Bible
It was I who taught Ephraim to walk, taking them in My arms, but they never realized that it was I who healed them.

New American Bible
Yet it was I who taught Ephraim to walk, who took them in my arms; but they did not know that I cared for them.

NET Bible
Yet it was I who led Ephraim, I took them by the arm; but they did not acknowledge that I had healed them.

New Revised Standard Version
Yet it was I who taught Ephraim to walk, I took them up in my arms; but they did not know that I healed them.

New Heart English Bible
Yet I taught Ephraim to walk. I took them in my arms; but they did not know that I healed them.

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

World English Bible
Yet I taught Ephraim to walk. I took them by their arms, but they didn’t know that I healed them.

Young's Literal Translation
And I have caused Ephraim to go on foot, Taking them by their arms, And they have not known that I strengthened them.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Out of Egypt I Called my Son
2But the more I called Israel, the farther they departed from Me. They sacrificed to the Baals and burned incense to carved images. 3It was I who taught Ephraim to walk, taking them in My arms, but they never realized that it was I who healed them. 4I led them with cords of kindness, with ropes of love; I lifted the yoke from their necks and bent down to feed them.…

Cross References
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."

Deuteronomy 32:10
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.

Deuteronomy 32:11
As an eagle stirs up its nest and hovers over its young, He spread His wings to catch them and carried them on His pinions.

Psalm 107:20
He sent forth His word and healed them; He rescued them from the Pit.

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."


Treasury of Scripture

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

taught.

Exodus 19:4
Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself.

Numbers 11:11,12
And Moses said unto the LORD, Wherefore hast thou afflicted thy servant? and wherefore have I not found favour in thy sight, that thou layest the burden of all this people upon me? …

Deuteronomy 1:31
And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the LORD thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place.

I healed.

Hosea 2:8
For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they prepared for Baal.

Hosea 7:1
When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief cometh in, and the troop of robbers spoileth without.

Hosea 14:4
I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.

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Hosea 11
1. The ingratitude of Israel unto God for his benefits.
5. His judgment.
8. God's mercy toward them.
12. Israel's falsehood and Judah's fidelity.














(3) Read, Yet it was I who guided Ephraim's steps, taking him by his arms. There is a beautiful parallel to this in Deuteronomy 32:10-11.

Knew not . . .--This obtuseness to the source of all mercies--the refusal to recognise the true origin in Divine revelation of those ideas which, though they bless and beautify life, are not recognised as such revelation, but are treated as "the voice of nature," or "development of humanity," or "dictum of human reason "--is one of the commonest and most deadly sins of modern Christendom. The unwillingness to recognise the Divine Hand in "creation," "literature," "history" takes the opposed forms of Pantheism and Pyrrhonism. To each of these the prophet's words apply.

Verse 3. - I taught Ephraim also to fro, taking them by their alms; but they knew not that I healed them. This picture of God's guiding and guarding care of Ephraim is very touching and tender. It is that of an affectionate parent or tender nurse teaching a child to walk by leading-strings; taking it up in the arms when stumbling or making a false step; and in case it fell curing the wound. Thus, nurse-like, God taught Ephraim, his wayward perverse child, to use his feet (so the original word imports), all the while lending considerate help and seasonable aid. He took them by the hand to guide them, that they might not stray; he took them in his arms to hold them up, that they might not stumble and to help them over any obstacle that might lie in the way; and when, left to themselves during a short season, and in order to test their strength, they did stumble and fall, he healed their hurt. And yet they did not apprehend nor appreciate God's gracious design and dealings with them in thus guiding and guarding them, and in healing their diseases both temporal and spiritual. There is, perhaps, an allusion to Exodus 15:26, "I will put none of these diseases upon thee which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the Lord that healeth thee." This promise, it will be remembered, was vouchsafed immediately after the bitter waters of Marah had been sweetened by the tree which, according to Divine direction, had been cast therein. Thus Kimchi: "And they have not acknowledged that I healed them of every sickness and every affliction, as he said, 'I will put none of these diseases upon thee.'" The reference is rather to all those evidences of his love which God manifested to them during their forty years' wandering in the wilderness; or perhaps to his guidance of them by 'his Law throughout their entire history. Rashi remarks that "they knew it very well, but dissembled [literally, 'trod it down with the heel,' equivalent to 'despised'] and acted, as if they did not know." The word תדגלחי is properly taken both by Kimchi and Gesenius

(1) for הרגלחי; the former says; "The tar stands in place of he: this is the opinion of the grammarians;" the latter regards it as a solitary example of Tiphel; others again consider it a corrupt reading instead of the ordinary form of Hiph.

(2) Some take it for a noun, as J. Kimchi, who says it is "a noun after the form of חפארחי, and although the word is Milel (while in תפארחי it is Milra), yet it is the same form;" thus the translation is, "As for me, my guidance was to Ephraim;" so Jerome, "I have been as a nurse to Ephraim;" likewise also Cyril. The former explanation is simpler and also otherwise preferable.

(3) The Septuagint has the incorrect rendering συνεπόδισα, "I bound the feet of Ephraim," which Jerome explains, "I bound the feet of Ephraim that they might not fly further from me," though his own rendering is that given above. The word קהם has also occasioned some difficulty and consequent diversity of explanation. . . .

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
It was I
וְאָנֹכִ֤י (wə·’ā·nō·ḵî)
Conjunctive waw | Pronoun - first person common singular
Strong's 595: I

who taught Ephraim
לְאֶפְרַ֔יִם (lə·’ep̄·ra·yim)
Preposition-l | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 669: Ephraim -- a son of Joseph, also his descendants and their territory

to walk,
תִרְגַּ֙לְתִּי֙ (ṯir·gal·tî)
Verb - Tiftl - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 7270: To walk along, to reconnoiter, to be a, tale-bearer, to lead about

taking
קָחָ֖ם (qā·ḥām)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular | third person masculine plural
Strong's 3947: To take

them in
עַל־ (‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

My arms,
זְרֽוֹעֹתָ֑יו (zə·rō·w·‘ō·ṯāw)
Noun - feminine plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 2220: The arm, the foreleg, force

but they never
וְלֹ֥א (wə·lō)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

realized
יָדְע֖וּ (yā·ḏə·‘ū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 3045: To know

that it was I
כִּ֥י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

who healed them.
רְפָאתִֽים׃ (rə·p̄ā·ṯîm)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular | third person masculine plural
Strong's 7495: To mend, to cure


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