Hosea 11:7
For my people are only bent on backsliding from me; and though upward they call them, they altogether will not elevate themselves.
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Psalms 78:57But swerved aside, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers; they turned about like a deceitful bow.
Proverbs 14:14The backslider in heart will have enough of his own ways; and from him [departeth] the good men.
Jeremiah 3:6And the Lord said unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen what backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and hath played the harlot there.
Jeremiah 7:25Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt until this day; and I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, sending them daily in the morning early;
Jeremiah 8:5Why then remaineth this people, Jerusalem, rebellious by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast on deceit, they refuse to return.
Hosea 4:16For like an untamable cow is Israel disobedient: now would the Lord have fed them as a sheep in a wide pasture.
Matthew Henry on Hosea 11:2-8
God's Goodness to Israel; The Ingratitude of Israel; God's Displeasure with Israel. ( b. c. 730.) 1 When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt. 2 As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images. 3 I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms; but they knew not that I healed them. 4 I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat… Read the whole commentary →