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Hosea 11:7

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For my people are determined to desert me. They call me the Most High, but they don’t truly honor me.

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“But no, my people wouldn’t listen. Israel did not want me around.

Backsliders get what they deserve; good people receive their reward.

Your kindness to the wicked does not make them do good. Although others do right, the wicked keep doing wrong and take no notice of the Lord’s majesty.

The people say, “Our wickedness has caught up with us, Lord, but help us for the sake of your own reputation. We have turned away from you and sinned against you again and again.

Your wickedness will bring its own punishment. Your turning from me will shame you. You will see what an evil, bitter thing it is to abandon the Lord your God and not to fear him. I, the Lord, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, have spoken!

Then the Lord said to me, “Even faithless Israel is less guilty than treacherous Judah!

From the day your ancestors left Egypt until now, I have continued to send my servants, the prophets—day in and day out.

But my people have not listened to me or even tried to hear. They have been stubborn and sinful—even worse than their ancestors.

Then why do these people stay on their self-destructive path? Why do the people of Jerusalem refuse to turn back? They cling tightly to their lies and will not turn around.

But the more I called to him, the farther he moved from me, offering sacrifices to the images of Baal and burning incense to idols.

The Lord says, “Then I will heal you of your faithlessness; my love will know no bounds, for my anger will be gone forever.

Israel is stubborn, like a stubborn heifer. So should the Lord feed her like a lamb in a lush pasture?

They look everywhere except to the Most High. They are as useless as a crooked bow. Their leaders will be killed by their enemies because of their insolence toward me. Then the people of Egypt will laugh at them.




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