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“When Israel was a child, then I loved him,
And called My son out of Egypt.”
Hosea 11:1
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“Jehovah’s portion is His people;
Jacob is the lot of His inheritance.
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“He found him in a desert land,
And in the waste howling wilderness;
He compassed him about, He cared for him,
He kept him as the apple of His eye.
As an eagle that stirreth up her nest,
That fluttereth over her young,
He spread abroad His wings, He took them,
He bare them on His pinions.”
Deuteronomy 32:9-11
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“They kept not the covenant of God,
And refused to walk in His law.”
Psalm 78:10
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“The more the prophets called them, the more they went
from them....
Yet I taught Ephraim to walk;
I took them on My arms;
But they knew not that I healed them.
I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love....
My people are bent on backsliding from Me:
Though they call them to Him that is on high,
None at all will exalt Him.”
Hosea 11:2-7
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