"They won't return into the land of Egypt; But the Assyrian will be their king, Because they refused to repent.
Butler and others have followed Keil in seeing that, "Egypt is a type of the land of bondage; but here the typical interpretation is precluded, especially by the correspondence in which the words stand to  Hosea 11:1b.[9] The point of this is that in  Hosea 11:1b the coming up of Israel out of Egypt was undeniably a literal thing; and since a literal return to Egypt was never intended by God, the reference here absolutely required a similar literal implication, hence the negative.  "They shall not return to Egypt," that is, "not to that Egypt."