are bent.

Hosea 4:16
For Israel is as obstinate as a stubborn heifer. Can the LORD now shepherd them like lambs in an open meadow?

Hosea 14:4
I will heal their apostasy; I will freely love them, for My anger has turned away from them.

Psalm 78:57, 58
They turned back and were faithless like their fathers, twisted like a faulty bow. . . .

Proverbs 14:14
The backslider in heart will have the fill of his own ways, but a good man will be rewarded for his.

Jeremiah 3:6, 8, 11
Now in the days of King Josiah, the LORD said to me, "Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every green tree to prostitute herself there. . . .

Jeremiah 8:5
Why then have these people turned away? Why does Jerusalem always turn away? They cling to deceit; they refuse to return.

Jeremiah 14:7
Although our iniquities testify against us, O LORD, act for the sake of Your name. Indeed, our rebellions are many; we have sinned against You.

they called me.

Hosea 11:2
But the more I called them, the farther they departed from Me. They sacrificed to the Baals and burned incense to carved images.

Hosea 7:16
They turn, but not to the Most High; they are like a faulty bow. Their leaders will fall by the sword for the cursing of their tongue; for this they will be ridiculed in the land of Egypt.

2 Chronicles 30:1-11
Then Hezekiah sent word throughout all Israel and Judah, and he also wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasseh inviting them to come to the house of the LORD in Jerusalem to keep the Passover of the LORD, the God of Israel. . . .

Psalm 81:11
But My people would not listen to Me, and Israel would not obey Me.

Amos 5:4-6, 14, 15
For this is what the LORD says to the house of Israel: "Seek Me and live! . . .

none at all would exalt him.