“But my people did not listen to my voice; Israel would have none of me.
Hosea 11:7 - Revised Standard Version My people are bent on turning away from me; so they are appointed to the yoke, and none shall remove it. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition My people are bent on backsliding from Me; though [the prophets] call them to Him Who is on high, none at all will exalt Him or lift himself up [to come to Him]. American Standard Version (1901) And my people are bent on backsliding from me: though they call them to him that is on high, none at all will exalt him. Common English Bible My people are bent on turning away from me; and though they cry out to the Most High, he will not raise them up. Catholic Public Domain Version And my people will long for my return. But a yoke will be imposed on them together, which will not be taken away. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And my people shall long for my return: but a yoke shall be put upon them together, which shall not be taken off. |
“But my people did not listen to my voice; Israel would have none of me.
A perverse man will be filled with the fruit of his ways, and a good man with the fruit of his deeds.
If favor is shown to the wicked, he does not learn righteousness; in the land of uprightness he deals perversely and does not see the majesty of the Lord.
“Though our iniquities testify against us, act, O Lord, for thy name's sake; for our backslidings are many, we have sinned against thee.
Your wickedness will chasten you, and your apostasy will reprove you. Know and see that it is evil and bitter for you to forsake the Lord your God; the fear of me is not in you, says the Lord God of hosts.
And the Lord said to me, “Faithless Israel has shown herself less guilty than false Judah.
From the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt to this day, I have persistently sent all my servants the prophets to them, day after day;
yet they did not listen to me, or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck. They did worse than their fathers.
Why then has this people turned away in perpetual backsliding? They hold fast to deceit, they refuse to return.
The more I called them, the more they went from me; they kept sacrificing to the Baals, and burning incense to idols.
I will heal their faithlessness; I will love them freely, for my anger has turned from them.
Like a stubborn heifer, Israel is stubborn; can the Lord now feed them like a lamb in a broad pasture?
They turn to Baal; they are like a treacherous bow, their princes shall fall by the sword because of the insolence of their tongue. This shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.