But my people didn't listen to my voice. Yisra'el desired none of me.
Hosea 11:7 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) My people are determined to turn from me. Though they call to the Elyon, he certainly won't exalt them. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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 didn't listen to my voice. Yisra'el desired none of me.
The unfaithful will be repaid for his own ways; likewise a good man will be rewarded for his ways.
Let favor be shown to the wicked, yet he will not learn righteousness. In the land of uprightness he will deal wrongfully, and will not see the LORD's majesty.
Though our iniquities testify against us, work you for your name's sake, LORD; for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against you.
Your own wickedness shall correct you, and your backsliding shall reprove you: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and a bitter, that you have forsaken the LORD your God, and that my fear is not in you, says the Lord, the LORD of Armies.
The LORD said to me, Backsliding Yisra'el has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Yehudah.
Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt to this day, I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them:
yet they didn't listen to me, nor inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff: they did worse than their fathers.
Why then is this people of Yerushalayim slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
They called to them, so they went from them. They sacrificed to the Ba`alim, and burned incense to engraved images.
*I will heal their waywardness. I will love them freely; for my anger is turned away from him.
For Yisra'el has behaved extremely stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer. Then how will the LORD feed them like a lamb in a meadow.
They return, but not to the Elyon. They are like a faulty bow. Their princes will fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue. This will be their derision in the land of Egypt.