Hosea 11:7

And my people are bent to backsliding from me. This first clause of the verse is very expressive, every word almost having an emphasis of its own. With all their sinfulness and shortcomings, Israel was still the people of God—my people; they were guilty of the sin of backsliding, and of backsliding from God, the best of benefactors and their chief good. Nor was it occasionally and after long intervals of time that they backslided; it was their habit, their tendency. They were suspended on, or rather fastened on, backsliding. Though they called them to the Most High, none at all would exalt him ; margin, together they exalted him not . This second clause signifies either

The word תלוּאיס is equivalent to תְלֻאִים , the same as תלוים , from תלא , equivalent to תָלָה , so that it signifies, according to Keil,

The phrase אֶל־עַל is variously interpreted, by some as

The verb ירְוֹמְם signifies,