I am Adonai your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide and I will fill it.
Hosea 11:7 - Tree of Life Version So My people are bent on turning from Me. Although they are being called upwards, none will rise up. 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. |
I am Adonai your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide and I will fill it.
A backsliding heart partakes of its ways, and a good man is rewarded for his.
Though grace is shown to the wicked, he does not learn righteousness. Even in a land of uprightness he will act wrongly, not perceiving the majesty of Adonai.
Though our iniquities testify against us, Adonai, act for Your Name’s sake. For our backslidings are many. We have sinned against You.
Your own wickedness will rebuke you and your backslidings will chide you. Know then and see how bad and bitter it is for you to forsake Adonai your God. Nor is fear of Me in you.” It is a declaration of the Lord Adonai-Tzva’ot.
Then Adonai said to me, “Backsliding Israel has proved herself more righteous than unfaithful Judah.
from the day your fathers left the land of Egypt until today. Although I sent to you all My servants the prophets, daily and persistently,
they did not listen to Me or pay attention. Rather, they stiffened their neck, doing more evil than their fathers.
Why then has this people—Jerusalem— turned away in perpetual backsliding? They cling to deceit; they refuse to return.
They called out to them but they departed from their presence. They kept sacrificing to the Baalim and burning incense up to idols.
‘Assyria will not save us. We will not ride on horses, and we will never again say, “Our god,” to the work of our hands, for with You, orphans find mercy.’”
For Israel is stubborn like a stubborn cow. Now Adonai will pasture them like a lamb in the open field.
They will turn back—only not upwards. They are like a treacherous bow. Their princes will fall by the sword because of the insolence with their tongues. This will be for their ridicule in the land of Egypt.