They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God: for the spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them, and they have not known the LORD.
They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God - "They," turning from a direct address to Ephraim, he uses the third person plural, to characterize the people in general. The Hebrew is against the margin. 'Their doings wilt not suffer them,' the omission of 'them' in the Hebrew after the verb being unusual. The sense is, they are incurable, for they will not permit х yitªnuw (H5414) - literally, give] their doings to be framed so as to turn unto God. Implying that they resist the Spirit of God, not suffering Him to renew them; and give themselves up to "the spirit of whoredoms" (in antithesis to 'the Spirit of God' implied in "suffer" or "permit)" (Hosea 4:12; Isaiah 63:10; Ezekiel 16:43; Acts 7:51, "Ye do always resist the Holy Spirit: as your fathers did, so do ye").
For the spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them - in their very center, in their inmost souls.