Hosea 11:3
I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms; but they knew not that I healed them.
Hosea 11:3 in other translations
| BSB | It was I who taught Ephraim to walk, taking them in My arms, but they never realized that it was I who healed them. |
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| WEB | Yet I taught Ephraim to walk. I took them by their arms, but they didn’t know that I healed them. |
| ASV | Yet I taught Ephraim to walk; I took them on my arms; but they knew not that I healed them. |
| YLT | And I have caused Ephraim to go on foot, Taking them by their arms, And they have not known that I strengthened them. |
| DARBY | And I it was that taught Ephraim to walk, — He took them upon his arms, — but they knew not that I healed them. |
| BBE | But I was guiding Ephraim's footsteps; I took them up in my arms, but they were not conscious that I was ready to make them well. |
| Webster | I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms; but they knew not that I healed them. |
What does Hosea 11:3 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Hosea 11:1-7
God's regard for Israel; their ingratitude. (Hos. 11:1-7) The Divine mercy yet in store. (Hos. 11:8-12) Verses 1-7 When Israel were weak and helpless as children, foolish and froward as children, then God loved them; he bore them as the nurse does the sucking child, nourished them, and suffered their manners. All who are grown up, ought often to reflect upon the goodness of God to them in their childhood. He took…
Hosea 11:3 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Hosea 11:3
- Jeremiah 30:17
For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the Lord; because they called thee an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeketh after.
- Exodus 15:26
And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the Lord that healeth thee.
- 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.
- Hosea 7:15
Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me.
- Deuteronomy 8:2
And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.
- Isaiah 30:26
Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the Lord bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.
- Isaiah 46:3
Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne by me from the belly, which are carried from the womb:
- 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 14:4
I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.
- Acts 13:18
And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness.
- 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.
- Deuteronomy 32:10-12
He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings: So the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.
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Context
- Hosea 11:2
As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.
- Hosea 11:3
I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms; but they knew not that I healed them.
- Hosea 11:4
I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them.
Hosea 11:3 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Yo con todo eso guiaba en pies al mismo Ephraim, tomándolos de sus brazos; y no conocieron que yo los cuidaba. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et moi, j’ai enseigné à Éphraïm à marcher, – Il les a pris sur ses bras, – mais ils ne savaient pas que je les guérissais. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und ich, ich gängelte Ephraim, -er nahm sie auf seine Arme-aber sie erkannten nicht, daß ich sie heilte. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Et ego quasi nutritius Ephraim: portabam eos in brachiis meis, et nescierunt quod curarem eos. |