Hosea 11:1-4
Trinity Sunday – A Women’s Lectionary
1 When IsraelA was a child,B I lovedC him,
and out of EgyptD I calledE my son.F
2 The more I called them,
the more they wentG from me;H
they kept sacrificingI to the Baals,J
and offering incenseK to idols.L
3 Yet it was I who taught EphraimM to walk,N
I tookO them up in my arms;P
but they did not knowQ that I healedR them.
4 I ledS them with cordsT of humanU kindness,
with bandsV of love.W
I was to them like those
who liftX infants to their cheeks.Y
I bent downZ to them and fedAA them.
Image credit: “A fountain celebrating a family in the city center of Kikinda” – a Cultural Heritage Site of Serbia. Photo by V.djordjevic, 2016.
