Hosea 11:3

‘Yet I taught Ephraim to walk,

I took them on my arms,

But they knew not that I healed them.'

Yet in a touching picture God describes how He had ‘taught Ephraim (Israel) to walk' (through the covenant) and how He had upheld them in His arms (Deuteronomy 33:27), or alternatively had grasped them by the arms. But the sad fact was that they had been unresponsive to His guidance, not recognising the care that He took over their wellbeing. They ‘knew not that He healed them' includes not only the thought that He looked after them when they were sick, but also that He continually watched out for their welfare. He had done for them all that was necessary.