Albert Barnes Commentary Hosea 11:7

"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]." — Hosea 11:7 (ASV)

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 thing “hung to” or “on” another sways to and fro within certain limits, but its relation to that on which it is hung remains immovable. Its power of motion is restrained within those limits.

So Israel, so the sinner, however he veers to and fro in the details and circumstances of his sin, is fixed and immovable in his adherence to his sin itself. Whatever else Israel did, on one thing its whole being, as a nation, depended: on “backsliding” or aversion from God.

The political existence of Israel, as a separate kingdom, depended on its worship of the calves, “the sin wherewith” Jeroboam “made Israel to sin.” This was the ground of their refusing to return (Hosea 11:5), that, through habitual sin, they were no longer in their own power: they were fixed in evil.

Though they called them to the most High — Literally, “called him.” As one man, the prophets called Israel; as one man, Israel refused to return; none at all would exalt Him; literally, “together he exalts Him not.”