TSK · Hosea 11:7

They were unfaithful and acted as treacherously as their ancestors; they were as unreliable as a malfunctioning bow.

The backslider will be paid back from his own ways, but a good person will be rewarded for his.

When Josiah was king of Judah, the LORD said to me,“Jeremiah, you have no doubt seen what wayward Israel has done. You have seen how she went up to every high hill and under every green tree to give herself like a prostitute to other gods.

From the time your ancestors departed the land of Egypt until now, I sent my servants the prophets to you again and again, day after day.

Why, then, do these people of Jerusalem continually turn away from me in apostasy? They hold fast to their deception. They refuse to turn back to me.

Israel has rebelled like a stubborn heifer! Soon the LORD will put them out to pasture like a lamb in a broad field!

But the more I summoned them, the farther they departed from me. They sacrificed to the Baal idols and burned incense to images.

The LORD says this to the family of Israel:“Seek me so you can live!