And my people shall long for my return: but a yoke shall be put upon them together, which shall not be taken off.

are bent.

Hosea 4:16 For Israel hath gone astray like a wanton heifer now will the Lord feed them, as a lamb in a spacious place.

Hosea 14:4 I will heal their breaches, I will love them freely: for my wrath is turned away from them.

Psalm 78:57,58 And they turned away, and kept not the covenant: even like their fathers they were turned aside as a crooked bow. . . .

Proverbs 14:14 A fool shall be filled with his own ways, and the good man shall be above him.

Jeremiah 3:6,8,11 And the Lord said to me in the days of king Josias: Hast thou seen what rebellious Israel hath done? she hath gone of herself upon every high mountain, and under every green tree, and hath played the harlot there. . . .

Jeremiah 8:5 Why then is this people in Jerusalem turned away with a stubborn revolting? they have laid hold on lying, and have refused to return.

Jeremiah 14:7 If our iniquities have testified against us, O Lord, do thou it for thy name's sake, for our rebellions are many, we have sinned against thee.

they called me.

Hosea 11:2 As they called them, they went away from before their face: they offered victims to Baalim, and sacrificed to idols.

Hosea 7:16 They returned, that they might be without yoke: they became like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword, for the rage of their tongue. This is their derision in the land of Egypt.

2 Chronicles 30:1-11 And Ezechias sent to all Israel and Juda: and he wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasses, that they should come to the house of the Lord in Jerusalem, and keep the phase to the Lord the God of Israel, . . .

Psalm 81:11 But my people heard not my voice: and Israel hearkened not to me.

Amos 5:4-6,14,15 For thus saith the Lord to the house of Israel: Seek ye me, and you shall live. . . .

none at all would exalt him.