No imagery is used, as of unfaithful wife, recalcitrant heifer, or furnace-piling baker, but homely literal commonplace. The people were called by sufficient means to the highest worship, but they were bent on the lowest.
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Hosea 11:7
7 And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him.