My people are bent on backsliding from Me. Though they call to the Most High, None at all exalt Him.

我的民偏要背道离开我；众先知虽然招呼他们归向至上的主，却无人尊崇主。

我的百姓偏要背离我，他们虽向至高者呼求，他却不抬举他们。

我的百姓偏要背离我，他们虽向至高者呼求，他却不抬举他们。

我的子民执意离我而去，他们虽然求告至高的我，我也不会拯救他们。

我的子民决要背道离开我，他们因着所负的轭而呼求，却没有人给他们卸下。

我的民偏要背道離開我；眾先知雖然招呼他們歸向至上的主，卻無人尊崇主。

我的百姓偏要背離我，他們雖向至高者呼求，他卻不抬舉他們。

我的百姓偏要背離我，他們雖向至高者呼求，他卻不抬舉他們。

我的子民執意離我而去，他們雖然求告至高的我，我也不會拯救他們。

我的子民決要背道離開我，他們因著所負的軛而呼求，卻沒有人給他們卸下。

我的人民偏要背道離開我；故此他們被派去負軛，沒有人能給除去。

我民決志違離我、雖有召之向上、興者迄無一人、

我民心偏、專背我旨、先知呼民、歸我至上之主、崇我者迄無一人、

我民當歸誠於我、乃游移不定、我民當歸誠於我乃游移不定或作我民專心背叛我先知勸之歸至上之主、無一人奮興、

My people are determined to turn from me. Even though they call me God Most High, I will by no means exalt them.

My people have made up their minds to turn away from me. Even if they call me the Most High God, I will certainly not honor them.”

My people are bent on turning away from me, and though they call out to the Most High, he shall not raise them up at all.

For my people are determined to desert me. They call me the Most High, but they don’t truly honor me.

My people are bent on turning from me. Though they call to him on high, he will not exalt them at all.

So My people are determined to turn from Me. Though they call them to the One on high, None at all exalts Him.

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.

My people are bent on turning from Me. Though they call to Him on high, He will not exalt them at all.

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

My people are obsessed with turning away from me; they call to Baal, but he will never exalt them!

My people are determined to turn from me. Though they call to the Most High, he certainly won’t exalt them.

Why has this people slidden back, Jerusalem, in a perpetual backsliding? They hold fast to deceit, They refuse to return.

But turned back and acted unfaithfully like their fathers; They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.For they provoked Him to anger with their high places, And moved Him to jealousy with their carved images.

The backslider in heart will be filled with his own ways, But a good man will be satisfied from above.

As they called them, So they went from them; They sacrificed to the Baals, And burned incense to carved images.

“ But My people would not heed My voice, And Israel would have none of Me.

“ I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely, For My anger has turned away from him.

For thus says the Lord to the house of Israel:“ Seek Me and live;But do not seek Bethel, Nor enter Gilgal, Nor pass over to Beersheba; For Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, And Bethel shall come to nothing.Seek the Lord and live, Lest He break out like fire in the house of Joseph, And devour it, With no one to quench it in Bethel—

They return, but not to the Most High; They are like a treacherous bow. Their princes shall fall by the sword For the cursings of their tongue. This shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.

Seek good and not evil, That you may live; So the Lord God of hosts will be with you, As you have spoken.Hate evil, love good; Establish justice in the gate. It may be that the Lord God of hosts Will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.

The Lord said also to me in the days of Josiah the king:“ Have you seen what backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and there played the harlot.And I said, after she had done all these things,‘ return to Me.’ But she did not return. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it.Then I saw that for all the causes for which backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a certificate of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but went and played the harlot also.

O Lord, though our iniquities testify against us, Do it for Your name’s sake; For our backslidings are many, We have sinned against You.

Then the Lord said to me,“ Backsliding Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah.

And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and also wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, to keep the Passover to the Lord God of Israel.For the king and his leaders and all the assembly in Jerusalem had agreed to keep the Passover in the second month.For they could not keep it at the regular time, because a sufficient number of priests had not consecrated themselves, nor had the people gathered together at Jerusalem.And the matter pleased the king and all the assembly.So they resolved to make a proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beersheba to Dan, that they should come to keep the Passover to the Lord God of Israel at Jerusalem, since they had not done it for a long time in the prescribed manner.Then the runners went throughout all Israel and Judah with the letters from the king and his leaders, and spoke according to the command of the king:“ Children of Israel, return to the Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel; then He will return to the remnant of you who have escaped from the hand of the kings of Assyria.And do not be like your fathers and your brethren, who trespassed against the Lord God of their fathers, so that He gave them up to desolation, as you see.Now do not be stiff-necked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to the Lord; and enter His sanctuary, which He has sanctified forever, and serve the Lord your God, that the fierceness of His wrath may turn away from you.For if you return to the Lord, your brethren and your children will be treated with compassion by those who lead them captive, so that they may come back to this land; for the Lord your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn His face from you if you return to Him.”So the runners passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, as far as Zebulun; but they laughed at them and mocked them.Nevertheless some from Asher, Manasseh, and Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem.

“ For Israel is stubborn Like a stubborn calf; Now the Lord will let them forage Like a lamb in open country.