Hosea 5:4

“They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God, etc.] Either their evil doings; they will not leave, as the Targum and Jarchif102; 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…”

“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 will 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 (as the Hebrew literally means) 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") (Hos 4:12; Isa 63:10; Eze 16:43; Act 7:51).”

“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…”

“5:4 Israel’s idolatrous practices were so ingrained that they were apparently powerless to return to the Lord. • You are a prostitute through and through (literally the spirit of prostitution is within them): Israel’s sin was not simply a behavior; it was the nation’s essential nature. They instinctively preferred the corrupt to the pure. Only through God’s work of salvation could Israel escape.”

“They will not frame their doings: Heb. They will not give, Or, their doings will not suffer them. Psa 36:1-4, Psa 78:8; Joh 3:19, Joh 3:20; Th2 2:11, Th2 2:12 for: Hos 4:12; Jer 50:38 and: Hos 4:1; Sa1 2:12; Psa 9:10; Jer 9:6, Jer 9:24, Jer 22:15, Jer 22:16, Jer 24:7; Joh 8:55, Joh 16:3; Jo1 2:3, Jo1 2:4 Hosea 5:5”