Charles Spurgeon 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:

They seemed as if they must do it, as if their hearts were set on it; they were "bent" on it. Oh, that our bent and bias were towards holiness, and not towards backsliding!

Though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him.

See how Israel puts God away, and will not hear Jehovah's voice. Now observe the change in the chapter, for God speaks of his faithfulness even to backsliding Israel. He does not give his people up, and he still yearns over them in tenderest pity and forbearance.

And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him.

There is a propensity in the human heart to go away from God – even in the hearts of God's own people. Oh! how sad it is that, though often called to God by the voice of Providence, and by the call of his Word, yet none at all would exalt him!