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Hosea 11:7

Good News Translation

They insist on turning away from me. They will cry out because of the yoke that is on them, but no one will lift it from them.

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“But my people would not listen to me; Israel would not obey me.

Bad people will get what they deserve. Good people will be rewarded for their deeds.

Even though you are kind to the wicked, they never learn to do what is right. Even here in a land of righteous people they still do wrong; they refuse to recognize your greatness.

My people cry out to me, ‘Even though our sins accuse us, help us, Lord, as you have promised. We have turned away from you many times; we have sinned against you.

Your own evil will punish you, and your turning from me will condemn you. You will learn how bitter and wrong it is to abandon me, the Lord your God, and no longer to remain faithful to me. I, the Sovereign Lord Almighty, have spoken.”

Then the Lord told me that, even though Israel had turned away from him, she had proved to be better than unfaithful Judah.

From the day that your ancestors came out of Egypt until this very day I have kept on sending to you my servants, the prophets.

Yet no one listened or paid any attention. Instead, you became more stubborn and rebellious than your ancestors.

Why then, my people, do you turn away from me without ever turning back? You cling to your idols and refuse to return to me.

But the more I called to him, the more he turned away from me. My people sacrificed to Baal; they burned incense to idols.

The Lord says, “I will bring my people back to me. I will love them with all my heart; no longer am I angry with them.

The people of Israel are as stubborn as mules. How can I feed them like lambs in a meadow?

They keep on turning away from me to a god that is powerless. They are as unreliable as a crooked bow. Because their leaders talk arrogantly, they will die a violent death, and the Egyptians will laugh.”




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