My people are determined to turn from me. Though they call to the Most High, He certainly won't exalt them.
"This whole verse is declared wholly corrupt by modern commentators,"[10] and due to the damage which the the Hebrew text of the O.T. has received through the ages, there might not be any way to find out the exact meaning of the few mutilated syllables that have reached us; but, certainly, the rendition as given here is fully in line with everything that Hosea or any other sacred writer has written elsewhere.