Hosea 11:7 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they call them to him that is on high, none at all will exalt him. More versionsKing 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. |
The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: And a good man shall be satisfied from himself.
Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness; in the land of uprightness will he deal wrongfully, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.
Though our iniquities testify against us, work thou for thy name's sake, O LORD: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee.
Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and a bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts.
And the LORD said unto me, Backsliding Israel hath shewn herself more righteous than treacherous Judah.
Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day, I have sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them:
yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff: they did worse than their fathers.
Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto the Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.
I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him..
For Israel hath behaved himself stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer: now will the LORD feed them as a lamb in a large place.
They return, but not to him that is on 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.