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My people are bent on backsliding from me: though they call them to [him who is] on high, none at all will exalt [him].
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Fastened to Sin
Commentators explain that being "bent on backsliding" is more than a simple tendency; it's a state of being "hung" or "fastened" to sin. Scholars like Calvin and Barnes note this describes a deep-seated obstinacy where the people's hearts were immovably fixed on turning away from God, making their rebellion a persistent, foundational problem.
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Hosea
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18th Century
Presbyterian
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…
19th Century
Anglican
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…
Baptist
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…
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16th Century
Protestant
This verse is rendered in various ways. Some explain the word תלואים, teluaim, as meaning “perplexed;” as though the Prophet had said that…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
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 helpless like children, foolish and willful like children, then God loved them; He carried them as a nurse carries a nurs…
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