Is this what you (A)do to the Lord,
(B)You foolish and unwise people?
(C)Is He not your Father who has purchased you?
(D)He has made you and established you.

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Is this the way you repay(A) the Lord,
    you foolish(B) and unwise people?(C)
Is he not your Father,(D) your Creator,[a]
    who made you and formed you?(E)

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 32:6 Or Father, who bought you

Do ye thus requite the Lord, O foolish people and unwise? is not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?

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Their deeds will not allow them
To return to their God.
For a (A)spirit of [a]infidelity is within them,
And they (B)do not know the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 5:4 Or prostitution

“Their deeds do not permit them
    to return(A) to their God.
A spirit of prostitution(B) is in their heart;
    they do not acknowledge(C) the Lord.

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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.

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