Ezechielis 5:4

Nova Vulgata

Non dabunt opera sua, ut revertantur ad Deum suum, quia spiritus fornicationis in medio eorum, et Dominum non cognoverunt.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Bibebant vinum, et laudabant deos suos aureos et argenteos, �reos, ferreos, ligneosque et lapideos.

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Non dabunt cogitationes suas ut revertantur ad Deum suum,
quia spiritus fornicationum in medio eorum,
et Dominum non cognoverunt.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

They will not frame their doings: Heb. They will not give, Or, their doings will not suffer them. Psalms 36:1-4, Psalms 78:8, John 3:19, John 3:20, 2 Thessalonians 2:11, 2 Thessalonians 2:12

for: Hosea 4:12, Jeremiah 50:38

and: Hosea 4:1, 1 Samuel 2:12, Psalms 9:10, Jeremiah 9:6, Jeremiah 9:24, Jeremiah 22:15, Jeremiah 22:16, Jeremiah 24:7, John 8:55, John 16:3, 1 John 2:3, 1 John 2:4

Reciprocal: Genesis 49:9 - a lion's 2 Chronicles 30:1 - Ephraim Jeremiah 4:22 - they have Hosea 9:1 - gone John 7:28 - whom

Gill's Notes on the Bible

They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God,.... Either their evil doings; they will not leave, as the Targum and Jarchi g; their evil ways and worship, their adultery and idolatry; which was necessary to repentance and true conversion to God, whom they yet professed to be their God, though they had so sadly departed from him: or their good works; they did not choose to do them, which were leading steps to repentance and conversion, or fruits and evidences of it: they had no mind to repent of their sins, and turn from them to the Lord; they had no thought, care, or concern, about these things, but obstinately persisted in their sins and in their impenitence: their wills were wretchedly depraved and corrupted; their hearts hard, perverse, and obstinate; they had no will to that which is good:

for the spirit of whoredom [is] in the midst of them; an unclean spirit, that prompts them to and pushes them on to commit corporeal and spiritual whoredom; the bias and inclination of their minds were this way which put them upon such evil practices; the spirit of error, which caused them to err, as the Targum and Kimchi; the lying spirit in the false prophets which encouraged them therein; and even himself, the spirit that works in the children of disobedience:

and they have not known the Lord; ignorance of God, his nature and perfections, his will, word, and worship, was the cause of their idolatry, and other sins; see Hosea 4:1; and this was wilful and affected ignorance; they knew not, nor would they understand: they rejected the knowledge of God, and the means of it; so the Targum,

"and they sought not instruction (or doctrine) from the Lord.''

g So R. Sol. Urbin. fol. 68. 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

They will not frame their doings ... - They were possessed by an evil spirit, impelling and driving them to sin; “the spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them,” i. e., in their very inward self, their center, so to speak; in their souls, where reside the will, the reason, the judgment; and so long as they did not, by the strength of God, dislodge him, they would and could not frame their acts, so as to repent and turn to God. For a mightier impulse mastered them and drove them into sin, as the evil spirit drove the swine into the deep.

The rendering of the margin, although less agreeable to the Hebrew, also gives a striking sense. “Their doings will not suffer them to turn unto their God.” Not so much that their habits of sin had got an absolute mastery over them, so as to render repentance impossible; but rather, that it was impossible that they should turn inwardly, while they did not turn outwardly. Their evil doings, so long as they persevered in doing them, took away all heart, whereby to turn to God with a solid conversion.

And yet He was “their God;” this made their sin the more grievous. He, whom they would not turn to, still owned them, was still ready to receive them as “their God.” For the prophet continues, “and they have not known the Lord.” Him, “their God,” they knew not. For the spirit which possessed them hindered them from thought, from memory, from conception of spiritual things. They did not turn to God,

(1) because the evil spirit held them, and so long as they allowed his hold, they were filled with carnal thoughts which kept them back from God.

(2) they did not know God; so that, not knowing how good and how great a good He is in Himself, and how good to us, they had not even the desire to turn to Him, for love of Himself, yea even for love of themselves. They saw not, that they lost a loving God.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Hosea 5:4. They will not frame their doings — They never purpose to turn to God, they have fully imbibed the spirit of idolatry.