And My people are bent to backsliding from Me — Literally, “are hung to it!” as we say, “a man’s whole being ‘hangs’ on a thing.” A…

No imagery is used, such as that of an unfaithful wife, a recalcitrant heifer, or a baker piling fuel for a furnace, but rather plain, literal, and…

And my people are bent to backsliding from me:

They seemed as if they must do it, as if their hearts were set on it; they were "bent…

This verse is rendered in various ways. Some explain the word תלואים, teluaim, as meaning “perplexed;” as though the Prophet had said that…

And my people are bent to backsliding from me
There is a propensity in them to it, through prevailing corruption in …

When Israel were weak and helple like children, foolish and willful like children, then God loved them; He carried them as a nurse carries a nursin…