Hosea 11:7

For my people are bent in rebellion against me, even if they call on the Most High he will not raise them.

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In The King James Version

And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him.

In Context

6Therefore the swords will whirl in their cities, will devour in their fortresses.

8How can I give you up, Ephraim! Give you over, Israel! How am I to give you up as Admah! Make you like Zeboim! My heart asserts itself, my sympathies are all aglow.

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Cross References

Psalms 78:57They drew back, false like their ancestors; they failed like a treacherous bow.

Hosea 4:16Like a willful heifer, Israel is stubborn. Can the Lord now feed them as he would a lamb in a broad 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 →

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