Hosea 11:7

And My people are hanging in suspense, about My returning, And unto the Most High they do call, Together they exalt not.

Young's Literal Translation

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

6Grievous hath been the sword in his cities, And it hath ended his bars, and consumed — from their own counsels.

8How do I give thee up, O Ephraim? Do I deliver thee up, O Israel? How do I make thee as Admah? Do I set thee as Zeboim? Turned in Me is My heart, kindled together have been My repentings.

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Cross References

Psalms 78:57And they turn back, And deal treacherously like their fathers, They have been turned like a deceitful bow,

Proverbs 14:14From his ways is the backslider in heart filled, And a good man — from his fruits.

Jeremiah 3:6And Jehovah saith unto me, in the days of Josiah the king, 'Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? She is going on every high mountain, and unto the place of every green tree, and committeth fornication there.

Jeremiah 7:25Even from the day when your fathers Went out of the land of Egypt till this day, I send to you all my servants the prophets, Daily rising early and sending,

Jeremiah 8:5Wherefore hath this people of Jerusalem Turned back — a perpetual backsliding? They have kept hold on deceit, They have refused to turn back.

Hosea 4:16For as a refractory heifer hath Israel turned aside, Now doth Jehovah feed 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 →

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