Hosea 11:7

Webster's Bible (1833)

My people are determined to turn from me. Though they call to the Most High, He certainly won't exalt them.

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  • Jer 8:5 : 5 Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
  • Ps 78:57-58 : 57 But turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers. They were turned aside like a deceitful bow. 58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places, And moved him to jealousy with their engraved images.
  • Ps 81:11 : 11 But my people didn't listen to my voice. Israel desired none of me.
  • Prov 14:14 : 14 The unfaithful will be repaid for his own ways; Likewise a good man will be rewarded for his ways.
  • Hos 7:16 : 16 They return, but not to the Most High. They are like a faulty bow. Their princes will fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue. This will be their derision in the land of Egypt.
  • Hos 11:2 : 2 They called to them, so they went from them. They sacrificed to the Baals, And burned incense to engraved images.
  • Hos 14:4 : 4 "I will heal their waywardness. I will love them freely; For my anger is turned away from him.
  • Amos 5:4-6 : 4 For thus says Yahweh to the house of Israel: "Seek me, and you will live; 5 But don't seek Bethel, Nor enter into Gilgal, And don't pass to Beersheba: For Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, And Bethel shall come to nothing. 6 Seek Yahweh, and you will live; Lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, And it devour, and there be no one to quench it in Bethel.
  • Amos 5:14-15 : 14 Seek good, and not evil, That you may live; And so Yahweh, the God of hosts, will be with you, As you say. 15 Hate evil, love good, And establish justice in the courts. It may be that Yahweh, the God of hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph."
  • Jer 3:6-8 : 6 Moreover Yahweh said to me in the days of Josiah the king, Have you seen that which backsliding Israel has done? she is gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and there has played the prostitute. 7 I said after she had done all these things, She will return to me; but she didn't return: and her treacherous sister Judah saw it. 8 I saw, when, for this very cause that backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a bill of divorce, yet treacherous Judah, her sister, didn't fear; but she also went and played the prostitute.
  • Jer 3:11 : 11 Yahweh said to me, Backsliding Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah.
  • Jer 14:7 : 7 Though our iniquities testify against us, work you for your name's sake, Yahweh; for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against you.
  • Hos 4:16 : 16 For Israel has behaved extremely stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer. Then how will Yahweh feed them like a lamb in a meadow.
  • 2 Chr 30:1-9 : 1 Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of Yahweh at Jerusalem, to keep the Passover to Yahweh, the God of Israel. 2 For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the assembly in Jerusalem, to keep the Passover in the second month. 3 For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not sanctified themselves in sufficient number, neither had the people gathered themselves together to Jerusalem. 4 The thing was right in the eyes of the king and of all the assembly. 5 So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beersheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the Passover to Yahweh, the God of Israel, at Jerusalem: for they had not kept it in great numbers in such sort as it is written. 6 So the posts went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, You children of Israel, turn again to Yahweh, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, that he may return to the remnant that have escaped of you out of the hand of the kings of Assyria. 7 Don't be you like your fathers, and like your brothers, who trespassed against Yahweh, the God of their fathers, so that he gave them up to desolation, as you see. 8 Now don't you be stiff-necked, as your fathers were; but yield yourselves to Yahweh, and enter into his sanctuary, which he has sanctified forever, and serve Yahweh your God, that his fierce anger may turn away from you. 9 For if you turn again to Yahweh, your brothers and your children shall find compassion before those who led them captive, and shall come again into this land: for Yahweh your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if you return to him. 10 So the posts passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, even to Zebulun: but they ridiculed them, and mocked them. 11 Nevertheless certain men of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem.

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  • 8 "How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I make you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within me, My compassion is aroused.

  • Ps 81:11-13
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    11 But my people didn't listen to my voice. Israel desired none of me.

    12 So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, That they might walk in their own counsels.

    13 Oh that my people would listen to me, That Israel would walk in my ways!

  • 10 The pride of Israel testifies to his face; Yet they haven't returned to Yahweh their God, Nor sought him, for all this.

  • 5 Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.

  • Jer 11:10-11
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    10 They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, who refused to hear my words; and they are gone after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.

    11 Therefore thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will bring evil on them, which they shall not be able to escape; and they shall cry to me, but I will not listen to them.

  • 6 My people have been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray; they have turned them away on the mountains; they have gone from mountain to hill; they have forgotten their resting-place.

  • Jer 3:21-22
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    21 A voice is heard on the bare heights, the weeping [and] the petitions of the children of Israel; because they have perverted their way, they have forgotten Yahweh their God.

    22 Return, you backsliding children, I will heal your backsliding. Behold, we are come to you; for you are Yahweh our God.

  • 11 Has a nation changed [its] gods, which yet are no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.

  • 13 Yet the people have not turned to him who struck them, neither have they sought Yahweh of Hosts.

  • 6 Turn you to him from whom you have deeply revolted, children of Israel.

  • 7 They are all hot as an oven, And devour their judges. All their kings have fallen. There is no one among them who calls to me.

  • Hos 7:13-14
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    13 Woe to them! For they have wandered from me. Destruction to them! For they have trespassed against me. Though I would redeem them, Yet they have spoken lies against me.

    14 They haven't cried to me with their heart, But they howl on their beds. They assemble themselves for grain and new wine. They turn away from me.

  • 7 How can I pardon you? your children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the prostitutes' houses.

  • 15 For my people have forgotten me, they have burned incense to false [gods]; and they have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in byways, in a way not built up;

  • 6 those who have turned back from following Yahweh, and those who haven't sought Yahweh nor inquired after him.

  • 11 Yahweh said to me, Backsliding Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah.

  • 2 They called to them, so they went from them. They sacrificed to the Baals, And burned incense to engraved images.

  • 6 The sword will fall on their cities, And will consume their gate bars, And will put an end to their plans.

  • 7 Though our iniquities testify against us, work you for your name's sake, Yahweh; for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against you.

  • 27 Because they turned aside from following him, And wouldn't have regard in any of his ways:

  • 6 They will go with their flocks and with their herds to seek Yahweh; But they won't find him. He has withdrawn himself from them.

  • 4 Ah sinful nation, A people loaded with iniquity, A seed of evil-doers, Children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.

  • 31 Generation, see the word of Yahweh. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? or a land of thick darkness? why say my people, We are broken loose; we will come no more to you?

  • 33 They have turned to me the back, and not the face: and though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not listened to receive instruction.

  • 7 As they were multiplied, so they sinned against me. I will change their glory into shame.

  • 1 Israel, return to Yahweh your God; For you have fallen because of your sin.

  • 6 You have rejected me, says Yahweh, you are gone backward: therefore have I stretched out my hand against you, and destroyed you; I am weary with repenting.

  • 23 But this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.

  • 24 But they didn't listen nor turn their ear, but walked in [their own] counsels [and] in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.

  • 17 My God will cast them away, because they did not listen to him; And they will be wanderers among the nations.

  • 10 Thus says Yahweh to this people, Even so have they loved to wander; they have not refrained their feet: therefore Yahweh does not accept them; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.

  • 27 who tell a stock, You are my father; and to a stone, You have brought me forth: for they have turned their back to me, and not their face; but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.

  • 7 But they, like Adam, have broken the covenant. They were unfaithful to me, there.

  • 2 The rebels are deep in slaughter; But I discipline all of them.

  • 22 They shall answer, Because they forsook Yahweh, the God of their fathers, who brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshiped them, and served them: therefore has he brought all this evil on them.

  • 19 Your own wickedness shall correct you, and your backsliding shall reprove you: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and a bitter, that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, and that my fear is not in you, says the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts.

  • 13 Yahweh says, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein,

  • 2 They cry to me, 'My God, we Israel acknowledge you!'

  • 16 For Israel has behaved extremely stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer. Then how will Yahweh feed them like a lamb in a meadow.

  • 11 Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sinning, They became for him altars for sinning.

  • 8 Yet they didn't obey, nor turn their ear, but walked everyone in the stubbornness of their evil heart: therefore I brought on them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they didn't do them.

  • 11 that the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, neither defile themselves any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, says the Lord Yahweh.

  • 16 They return, but not to the Most High. They are like a faulty bow. Their princes will fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue. This will be their derision in the land of Egypt.

  • 6 For our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh our God, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of Yahweh, and turned their backs.

  • 6 According to their pasture, so were they filled; They were filled, and their heart was exalted. Therefore they have forgotten me.