Hosea 11:7 · KJV
“And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt {him}. {none...: Heb. together they exalted not}”
— Hosea 11:7
And the sword shall abide on his cities, and shall consume his branches, and devour {them}, because of their own counsels.
How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? {how} shall I deliver thee, Israel? how shall I make thee as Admah? {how} shall I set thee as Zeboim? mine heart is turned within me, my repentings are kindled together.
Hosea 11 — Context
He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king, because they refused to return.
6And the sword shall abide on his cities, and shall consume his branches, and devour {them}, because of their own counsels.
7And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt {him}. {none...: Heb. together they exalted not}
8How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? {how} shall I deliver thee, Israel? how shall I make thee as Admah? {how} shall I set thee as Zeboim? mine heart is turned within me, my repentings are kindled together.
9I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I {am} God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of thee: and I will not enter into the city.
Cross References
Jeremiah 8:5
Why {then} is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
Amos 5:14-15
Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.
Amos 5:4-6
For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:
Hosea 7:16
They return, {but} not to the most High: they are like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this {shall be} their derision in the land of Egypt.
Hosea 11:2
{As} they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.
Hosea 14:4
I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.
Psalms 81:11
But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.
Proverbs 14:14
The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man {shall be satisfied} from himself.