16 “For Israel (A)is stubborn
Like a stubborn calf;
Now the Lord will let them forage
Like a lamb in [a]open country.

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  1. Hosea 4:16 Lit. a large place

11 “But they refused to heed, (A)shrugged[a] their shoulders, and (B)stopped[b] their ears so that they could not hear.

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  1. Zechariah 7:11 Lit. gave a stubborn or rebellious shoulder
  2. Zechariah 7:11 Lit. made their ears heavy

My people are bent on (A)backsliding from Me.
Though [a]they call [b]to the Most High,
None at all exalt Him.

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  1. Hosea 11:7 The prophets
  2. Hosea 11:7 Or upward

O Lord, though our iniquities testify against us,
Do it (A)for Your name’s sake;
For our backslidings are many,
We have sinned against You.

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Why has this people (A)slidden back,
Jerusalem, in a perpetual backsliding?
(B)They hold fast to deceit,
(C)They refuse to return.

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24 (A)Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but (B)followed[a] the counsels and the [b]dictates of their evil hearts, and (C)went[c] backward and not forward.

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  1. Jeremiah 7:24 walked in
  2. Jeremiah 7:24 stubbornness or imagination
  3. Jeremiah 7:24 Lit. they were

Therefore (A)a lion from the forest shall slay them,
(B)A wolf of the deserts shall destroy them;
(C)A leopard will watch over their cities.
Everyone who goes out from there shall be torn in pieces,
Because their transgressions are many;
Their backslidings have increased.

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11 Then the Lord said to me, (A)“Backsliding Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah.

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Then I saw that (A)for all the causes for which backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had (B)put her away and given her a certificate of divorce; (C)yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but went and played the harlot also.

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A Call to Repentance

The Lord said also to me in the days of Josiah the king: “Have you seen what (A)backsliding Israel has done? She has (B)gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and there played the harlot.

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18 He will surely turn violently and toss you like a ball
Into a large country;
There you shall die, and there (A)your glorious chariots
Shall be the shame of your master’s house.

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21 It shall be in that day
That a man will keep alive a young cow and two sheep;
22 So it shall be, from the abundance of milk they give,
That he will eat curds;
For curds and honey everyone will eat who is left in the land.

23 It shall happen in that day,
That wherever there could be a thousand vines
Worth a thousand shekels of silver,
(A)It will be for briers and thorns.
24 With arrows and bows men will come there,
Because all the land will become briers and thorns.

25 And to any hill which could be dug with the hoe,
You will not go there for fear of briers and thorns;
But it will become a range for oxen
And a place for sheep to roam.

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17 Then the lambs shall feed in their pasture,
And in the waste places of (A)the [a]fat ones strangers shall eat.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 5:17 Lit. fatlings, rich ones

11 (A)“I greatly regret that I have set up Saul as king, for he has (B)turned back from following Me, (C)and has not performed My commandments.” And it (D)grieved Samuel, and he cried out to the Lord all night.

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33 (A)I will scatter you among the nations and draw out a sword after you;

your land shall be desolate and your cities waste.

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