en_tn/hos/13/04.md

Yahweh is speaking.

I knew you in the wilderness

Yahweh, unlike the gods of the idols, watched over his people and blessed them with water and what they needed to survive in the desert.

your heart became lifted up

"Your heart" refers to the relationship of the people of Israel toward God; they became proud, thinking that they did not need Yahweh to be their god any more. (see: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy)