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.

New Revised Standard Version
My people are bent on turning away from me. To the Most High they call, but he does not raise them up at all.

Contemporary English Version
My people are determined to reject me for a god they think is stronger, but he can't help.

New American Bible
My people have their mind set on apostasy; though they call on God in unison, he shall not raise them up.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And my people shall long for my return: but a yoke shall be put upon them together, which shall not be taken off.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And my people shall long for my return: but a yoke shall be put upon them together, which shall not be taken off.

are bent.

Hosea 4:16 For Israel hath gone astray like a wanton heifer now will the Lord feed them, as a lamb in a spacious place.

Hosea 14:4 I will heal their breaches, I will love them freely: for my wrath is turned away from them.

Psalm 78:57,58 And they turned away, and kept not the covenant: even like their fathers they were turned aside as a crooked bow. . . .

Proverbs 14:14 A fool shall be filled with his own ways, and the good man shall be above him.

Jeremiah 3:6,8,11 And the Lord said to me in the days of king Josias: Hast thou seen what rebellious Israel hath done? she hath gone of herself upon every high mountain, and under every green tree, and hath played the harlot there. . . .

Jeremiah 8:5 Why then is this people in Jerusalem turned away with a stubborn revolting? they have laid hold on lying, and have refused to return.

Jeremiah 14:7 If our iniquities have testified against us, O Lord, do thou it for thy name's sake, for our rebellions are many, we have sinned against thee.

they called me.

Hosea 11:2 As they called them, they went away from before their face: they offered victims to Baalim, and sacrificed to idols.

Hosea 7:16 They returned, that they might be without yoke: they became like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword, for the rage of their tongue. This is their derision in the land of Egypt.

2 Chronicles 30:1-11 And Ezechias sent to all Israel and Juda: and he wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasses, that they should come to the house of the Lord in Jerusalem, and keep the phase to the Lord the God of Israel, . . .

Psalm 81:11 But my people heard not my voice: and Israel hearkened not to me.

Amos 5:4-6,14,15 For thus saith the Lord to the house of Israel: Seek ye me, and you shall live. . . .

none at all would exalt him.

Context
Out of Egypt I Called my Son
6The sword hath begun in his cities, and it shall consume his chosen men, and shall devour their heads. 7And my people shall long for my return: but a yoke shall be put upon them together, which shall not be taken off.
Cross References
Isaiah 26:10
Let us have pity on the wicked, but he will not learn justice: in the land of the saints he hath done wicked things, and he shall not see the glory of the Lord.

Jeremiah 2:19
Thy own wickedness shall reprove thee, and thy apostasy shall rebuke thee. Know thou, and see that it is an evil and a bitter thing for thee, to have left the Lord thy God, and that my fear is not with thee, saith the Lord the God of hosts.

Jeremiah 3:6
And the Lord said to me in the days of king Josias: Hast thou seen what rebellious Israel hath done? she hath gone of herself upon every high mountain, and under every green tree, and hath played the harlot there.

Jeremiah 3:7
And when she had done all these things, I said: Return to me, and she did not return. And her treacherous sister Juda saw,

Jeremiah 8:5
Why then is this people in Jerusalem turned away with a stubborn revolting? they have laid hold on lying, and have refused to return.

Hosea 11:6
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