Great Plains Daily Devotional for 05/10/2017

11When Israel was a child, I loved him,
   and out of Egypt I called my son.
² The more I called them,
   the more they went from me;
they kept sacrificing to the Baals,
   and offering incense to idols.

³ 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.
⁴ I led them with cords of human kindness,
   with bands of love.
I was to them like those
   who lift infants to their cheeks.
   I bent down to them and fed them.