Hosea 11:7 And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him. Two explanations of this sentence are given. 1. The word teluaim signifies "perplexed." The people would suffer a just punishment through being anxious and looking around them, and yet finding no comfort; for this would be the reward of their defection or apostasy. 2. God here complains of the wickedness of the people, as of those who deliberated whether they ought to repent. They then take suspense for doubt. "My people are in suspense." They debate on the subject as on a doubtful matter, when I exhort them to repent, and they cannot at once decide what to do, but alternate between divers opinions, and now incline to one thing and then to another; as if the subject itself made it necessary for them to deliberate. ( John Calvin.) Parallel Verses KJV: And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him. |
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