Hosea 11:7

And Ami are bent to backsliding from Me; 1 though they called to the Most High, 1 none at all would exalt Him. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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

6And the cherev shall flash in his towns, 1 and shall destroy his gate bars, and devour them, 1 because of their own counsels. 1

8How shall I give thee up, Ephrayim? 1 How shall I hand thee over, Yisroel? 1 How shall I make thee as Admah? 1 How shall I make thee as Tzevoyim? 1 Mine lev is turned within Me, 1 My relentings are kindled together. 1

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Cross References

Psalms 78:57But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their avot; 1 they turned like a treacherous keshet. 1

Proverbs 14:14The sug (backslider, faithless one) in lev is filled with his own drakhim (roads), 1 but an ish tov shall be satisfied from above himself. 1

Jeremiah 3:6Hashem said also unto me in the days of Yoshiyah HaMelech, Hast thou seen that which meshuvah Yisroel (backsliding Yisroel) hath done? She is gone up upon every high hill and under every green tree, and there hath played the zonah.

Jeremiah 7:25Since the day that Avoteichem came forth out of Eretz Mitzrayim unto this day I have even sent unto you all My servants the Nevi'im, daily rising up early and sending them;

Jeremiah 8:5Why then does HaAm Hazeh turn away 1 in perpetual meshuvah (backsliding)? 1 They hold fast to deceit, 1 refusing to make teshuvah. 1

Hosea 4:16For Yisroel slideth back + 4:16 i.e., is stubborn, rebellious, unmanageable 1 like a backsliding parah (stubborn, rebellious cow); 1 can Hashem now feed them 1 like a lamb in a wide field? 1

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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