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Hosea 11:4
Hosea 11:4 is verse 4 of Hosea chapter 11, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
I led them with cords of kindness, with ropes of love; I lifted the yoke from their necks and bent down to feed them.
King James Version
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.
World English Bible
I 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.
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Hosea 11:2–6 · Berean Standard Bible
2 But the more I called Israel, the farther they departed from Me. They sacrificed to the Baals and burned incense to carved images.
3 It was I who taught Ephraim to walk, taking them in My arms, but they never realized that it was I who healed them.
4 I led them with cords of kindness, with ropes of love; I lifted the yoke from their necks and bent down to feed them.
5 Will they not return to the land of Egypt and be ruled by Assyria because they refused to repent?
6 A sword will flash through their cities; it will destroy the bars of their gates and consume them in their own plans.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Song of Solomon 1:4Take me away with you—let us hurry! May the king bring me to his chambers.
Isaiah 63:9In all their distress, He too was afflicted, and the Angel of His Presence saved them. In His love and compassion He redeemed them; He lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.
John 6:44“No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.
John 12:32And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw everyone to Myself.”
2 Corinthians 5:14For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that One died for all, therefore all died.
2 Samuel 7:14I will be his Father, and he will be My son. When he does wrong, I will discipline him with the rod of men and with the blows of the sons of men.
Leviticus 26:13I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt so that you would no longer be slaves to the Egyptians. I broke the bars of your yoke and enabled you to walk in uprightness.
Hosea 2:8For 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.
Psalms 78:23Yet He commanded the clouds above and opened the doors of the heavens.
Psalms 78:24He rained down manna for them to eat; He gave them grain from heaven.
Psalms 78:25Man ate the bread of angels; He sent them food in abundance.
Psalms 105:40They asked, and He brought quail and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.
John 6:32Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I tell you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but it is My Father who gives you the true bread from heaven.
John 6:33For the bread of God is He who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”
John 6:34“Sir,” they said, “give us this bread at all times.”
John 6:35Jesus answered, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to Me will never hunger, and whoever believes in Me will never thirst.
John 6:36But as I stated, you have seen Me and still you do not believe.
John 6:37Everyone the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will never drive away.
John 6:38For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but to do the will of Him who sent Me.
John 6:39And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that I shall lose none of those He has given Me, but raise them up at the last day.
John 6:40For it is My Father’s will that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in Him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.”
John 6:41At this, the Jews began to grumble about Jesus because He had said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.”
John 6:42They were asking, “Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How then can He say, ‘I have come down from heaven?’”
John 6:43“Stop grumbling among yourselves,” Jesus replied.
John 6:45It is written in the Prophets: ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from Him comes to Me—
John 6:46not that anyone has seen the Father except the One who is from God; only He has seen the Father.
John 6:47Truly, truly, I tell you, he who believes has eternal life.
John 6:48I am the bread of life.
John 6:49Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died.
John 6:50This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that anyone may eat of it and not die.
John 6:51I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And this bread, which I will give for the life of the world, is My flesh.”
John 6:52At this, the Jews began to argue among themselves, “How can this man give us His flesh to eat?”
John 6:53So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh and drink the blood of the Son of Man, you have no life in you.
John 6:54Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.
John 6:55For My flesh is real food, and My blood is real drink.
John 6:56Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood remains in Me, and I in him.
John 6:57Just as the living Father sent Me and I live because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on Me will live because of Me.
John 6:58This is the bread that came down from heaven. Unlike your fathers, who ate the manna and died, the one who eats this bread will live forever.”