Hosea 11:7

New English Translation

My people are obsessed with turning away from me; they call to Baal, but he will never exalt them!

Cross References

Psalm 81:11

But my people did not obey me; Israel did not submit to me.

Proverbs 14:14

The backslider will be paid back from his own ways, but a good person will be rewarded for his.

Isaiah 26:10

If the wicked are shown mercy, they do not learn about justice. Even in a land where right is rewarded, they act unjustly; they do not see the Lord’s majesty revealed.

Jeremiah 14:7

Then I said, “O Lord, intervene for the honor of your name even though our sins speak out against us. Indeed, we have turned away from you many times. We have sinned against you.

Jeremiah 2:19

Your own wickedness will bring about your punishment. Your unfaithful acts will bring down discipline on you. Know, then, and realize how utterly harmful it was for you to reject me, the Lord your God, to show no respect for me,” says the Lord God who rules over all.

Jeremiah 3:11

Then the Lord said to me, “Under the circumstances, wayward Israel could even be considered less guilty than unfaithful Judah.

Jeremiah 7:25

From the time your ancestors departed the land of Egypt until now, I sent my servants the prophets to you again and again, day after day.

Jeremiah 7:26

But your ancestors did not listen to me nor pay attention to me. They became obstinate and were more wicked than even their own forefathers.’”

Jeremiah 8:5

Why, then, do these people of Jerusalem continually turn away from me in apostasy? They hold fast to their deception. They refuse to turn back to me.

Hosea 11:2

But the more I summoned them, the farther they departed from me. They sacrificed to the Baal idols and burned incense to images.

Hosea 14:4

“I will heal their waywardness and love them freely, for my anger will turn away from them.

Hosea 4:16

Israel has rebelled like a stubborn heifer! Soon the Lord will put them out to pasture like a lamb in a broad field!

Hosea 7:16

They turn to Baal; they are like an unreliable bow. Their leaders will fall by the sword because their prayers to Baal have made me angry. So people will disdain them in the land of Egypt.