Hosea 11:7
And My people are hanging in suspense about My returning, || And to the Most High they call, || Together they do not exalt.
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Psalms 78:57And they turn back, || And deal treacherously like their fathers, || They have been turned like a deceitful bow,
Proverbs 14:14The backslider in heart is filled from his ways, || And a good man—from his fruits.
Jeremiah 3:6And YHWH says to me, in the days of Josiah the king, “Have you seen that which backsliding Israel has done? She is going on every high mountain, and to the place of every green tree, and commits fornication there.
Jeremiah 7:25Even from the day when your fathers || Went out of the land of Egypt until this day, || I send all My servants the prophets to you, || Daily rising early and sending,
Jeremiah 8:5Why has this people of Jerusalem || Turned back—a continuous backsliding? They have kept hold on deceit, || They have refused to turn back.
Hosea 4:16For Israel has turned aside as a stubborn heifer, || Now YHWH feeds them as a lamb in a large place.
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 →