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Hosea 14:4

HOSEA—NOTE ON Hosea 14:4 Astounding promises follow the calls to repentance to encourage Israel to return. The Lord will heal their apostasy. As noted in Hosea 5:13, the prophets often depict sin as a sickness and renewal as healing.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Hosea 14:4. _I WILL HEAL THEIR BACKSLIDING_] Here is the _answer_ of God to these prayers and resolutions. See its parts: - 1. Ye have backslidden and fallen, and are grievously and mortally wo...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    I WILL HEAL THEIR BACKSLIDING - God, in answer, promises to “heal” that wound of their souls, from where every other evil came, their fickleness and unsteadfastness. Hitherto, this had been the charac...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 14 The Return and the Glorious Redemption _ 1. The exhortation to return (Hosea 14:1) _ 2. The glorious redemption (Hosea 14:4) Hosea 14:1. This chapter is a wonderful finale to the message...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    HOSEA 14:1 (Heb. Hosea 14:2). ISRAEL'S REPENTANCE AND YAHWEH'S FORGIVENESS. The section begins with a passionate appeal to Israel to repent and confess his sin (Hosea 14:1 f.). A promise of amendment...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    BACK-SLIDING. Compare Hosea 11:7; Jeremiah 5:6; Jeremiah 14:7. HIM: i.e. Israel....

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 1176 THE BLESSINGS THAT PENITENTS MAY EXPECT Hosea 14:4. _I will heal their backsliding; I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him_. MEN who have never seen the evil...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    FREELY— Are good works then nothing, you will say? "Is there no place at all for them in the doctrine of repentance? I answer, that hitherto the discourse hath been about remission of sins, and the gi...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    PEACE REMAINSLAVED TEXT: Hosea 14:4-6 4 I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely; for mine anger is turned away from him. 5 I will be as the dew unto Israel; he shall blossom as the...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him. I WILL HEAL THEIR BACKSLIDING, I WILL LOVE THEM FREELY - God's gracious reply to their self-condemni...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    ISRAEL WILL SURELY REPENT AND BE FORGIVEN Hosea makes a touching final appeal for repentance. He assures Israel of God's mercy, and closes with a description of the blessings that will follow the ren...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    THE MAN WHO NEVER STOPPED LOVING HOSEA _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 14 GOD CALLS TO ISRAEL TO RETURN TO HIM V1 Return to the *Lord your God, people of Israel. Your *sin has made you fall....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    HEAL... LOVE. — If the foregoing be the offering of penitent lips, then the majestic reply of Jehovah is full of superlative grace....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Hosea 14:5]_ אֶרְפָּא֙ מְשׁ֣וּבָתָ֔ם אֹהֲבֵ֖ם נְדָבָ֑ה כִּ֛י...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    THE FINAL ARGUMENT Hosea 12:1 - Hosea 14:1 THE impassioned call with which the last chapter closed was by no means an assurance of salvation: "How am I to give thee, up, Ephraim? how am I to let the...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    2. THE LAST JUDGMENT Hosea 13:1 - Hosea 14:1 The crisis draws on. On the one hand Israel's sin, accumulating, bulks ripe for judgment. On the other the times grow more fatal, or the prophet more tha...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    "I WILL BE AS THE DEW" Hosea 14:2 LIKE the Book of Amos, the Book of Hosea, after proclaiming the people's inevitable doom, turns to a blessed prospect of their restoration to favor with God. It will...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    “I WILL HEAL THEIR BACKSLIDING” Hosea 13:15-16; Hosea 14:1-9 The prophet here ransacks the world of nature for phrases sufficiently expressive of his transports of joy. The whole world seems laid und...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The cycle closes with the final call of the prophet, and the promise of Jehovah. The call was to the people to return, because by iniquity they had fallen. The method suggested was to bring the words...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    (e) I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him. (e) He declares how ready God is to receive those that do repent....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Gods. The Assyrians, instead of protecting, oppress us; while Egypt, famous for horses, sits unconcerned. (Calmet) --- But the source of all our evils are the idols, which we will follow no more. ---...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Here we have the second division of the Chapter, in a Cluster of the richest promises. Reader! contemplate the Lord Jesus in all these precious things, (for He is the speaker), and oh! for grace, that...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    The rest of the prophecy consists of the indignant appeals of the Holy Spirit to conscience because of the increasing evils of Israel not so much the judgment of God on a grand scale, and His grace at...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _BACKSLIDING AND ITS CURE_ ‘I will heal their backsliding.’ Hosea 14:4 In the English Bible the word ‘backsliding’ is found fifteen times, and represents in English several words in the original, e...

  • John Brown Commentaries Selected Books of the Bible

    XIII. CONCLUSION A. And we will close with the Lord's desire for Israel and within these verse is also His desire for all of his children 1. Hosea 14:1-9 (NASB) Return, O Israel, to the Lord your Go...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    God here confirms what we have observed respecting his gratuitous reconciliation, nor is the repetition useless; for as men are disposed to entertain vain and false hopes, so nothing is more difficult...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Chapter 14. It is this last work that we find in chapter 14 of the prophet. Israel, returning to Jehovah, acknowledges his iniquity, and addresses himself to the grace of his God. Thus only could he r...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    I WILL HEAL THEIR BACKSLIDINGS,.... This and what follows is the Lord's answer to the above prayer; and this clause particularly is an answer to that petition, "take away all iniquity", Hosea 14:2; si...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him. Ver. 4. _I will heal their backslidings_] Relapses, we know, are dangerous, and apostasy little less th...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _I will heal their backsliding_ I will deliver them from a backsliding heart and way, and remove those judgments they have brought upon themselves thereby. The Lord says, _I will heal_, &c., a usual m...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    A FINAL EXHORTATION TO RETURN, WITH A PROMISE OF REDEMPTION. After having shown the apostate Israelites in various ways in what their guilt consisted, the Lord here once more appeals to them to retur...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    I will heal their backsliding, all the calamities brought upon them by their unfaithfulness to the Lord; I WILL LOVE THEM FREELY, with the fullness of His abundant love and mercy; FOR MINE ANGER IS TU...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    4-8 Israel seeks God's face, and they shall not seek it in vain. His anger is turned from them. Whom God loves, he loves freely; not because they deserve it, but of his own good pleasure. God will be...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    I WILL HEAL: it is a usual metaphor in Scripture; sin is our disease. God is the Physician who healeth us, PSALMS 103:3 JEREMIAH 3:22; and he doth it through Christ, in whom this promise is made to re...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Hosea 14:4 heal H7495 (H8799) backsliding H4878 love H157 (H8799) freely H5071 anger H639 away H7725 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely; for my anger is turned away from him.' YHWH's response will then be that He will heal their backsliding and love them freely, because in view o...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ISRAEL ARE CALLED ON TO RETURN TO YHWH WITH THE ASSURANCE THAT WHEN THEY DO SO YHWH WILL RESTORE THEM AND LOVE THEM FREELY, AND THEY THEN LEARN OF ALL THE GOOD THINGS THAT HE HAS IN STORE FOR THEM AS...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Hosea 14:1. _O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity._ When we fall by sin, we must regain our comfort by going back to the place where we lost it: «Return unto...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Hosea 14:1. _O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity._ Let anyone here, who has turned aside from the Lord, hear these tender pleading words, and then yield to...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Hosea 14:1. _O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God;_ Bless his name that he is still thy God, however much thou mayest have backslidden, thou hast not lost thy right to claim him as thy God, for he...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Hosea 14:1. _O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity._ Come back, poor wanderer! My brother or my sister, if your heart has grown cold toward your Lord and Mast...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    According to the heading of this chapter, we have here «an exhortation to repentance,» and «a promise of God's blessing.» Hosea 14:1. _O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Entreaty and promise to Israel. Restoration foretold. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: Though backslidings from God are dangerous diseases of the soul, yet they are not incurable, for God grac...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Hosea 14:2. _So will we render the calves of our lips._ The fruit of our lips, in worship, in praise, and in all holy obedience. The sacrifices of thanksgiving are pleasing to God. Hosea 14:3. _In the...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _I will heal their backsliding._ THE AWFUL STALE OF BACKSLIDERS In the history of the Israelites there is no feature more striking than their frequent rebellions and backslidings. It is amazing to t...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.] HOSEA 14:4.] Promise of mercy follows. First heal all injury caused by apostasy. FREELY] Gratuitously and with perfect spontaneity (Ezekiel 16:60). “The word means _impelled_ thereto...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION HOSEA 14:1 The foregoing part of this book abounds with denunciations of punishment; this closing chapter superabounds with promises of pardon. Wave after wave of threatened wrath had roll...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Chapter 14 ends God's plea with the people. His arms are always open; He's always ready to forgive. O Israel, [God said,] return unto the LORD thy God (Hsa Hosea 14:1); You've gone away, you've turn...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Corinthians 5:19; 2 Timothy 1:9; Deuteronomy 7:7; Deuteronomy 7:8;...

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