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Hosea 14:1
1Israel's people, return to the Lord your God! Your sins have caused you to fall down.
Hosea 14:1 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)O Israel, return unto the Lord thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.
- New International Version (NIV)Return, Israel, to the Lord your God. Your sins have been your downfall!
- English Standard Version (ESV)Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God, for you have stumbled because of your iniquity.
- New King James Version (NKJV)O Israel, return to the Lord your God, For you have stumbled because of your iniquity;
Context of Hosea 14:1
Israel's people, return to the Lord your God! Your sins have caused you to fall down. 2Return to the Lord and pray to him! Say to him, ‘Please forgive all our sins. Be kind to us as we come to you. We will praise you with our mouths, as our sacrifice to you. 3Assyria cannot save us. The horses that we ride into war will not keep us safe. We will never again say to the idols that we have made, “You are our gods.” You are kind to children who have no family. So please be kind to us.’
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שׁ֚וּבָה יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל עַ֖ד יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֑יךָ כִּ֥י כָשַׁ֖לְתָּ בַּעֲוֹנֶֽךָ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Hosea 14:1
- Hosea 6:1‘Listen! We should return to serve the Lord. He has torn us to pieces, but now he will make us well again. He has hurt us, but now he will make our wounds better.
- Hosea 12:6So now, you must return to your God. You must show faithful love for each other. You must judge people in a fair way. You must be patient. Trust God to come and help you.
- 1 Samuel 7:3Then Samuel said to all the Israelite people, ‘If you truly want to turn back to the Lord, you must show that you mean it. You must remove all your foreign gods and the images of Ashtoreth. You must give your lives completely to the Lord. You must worship only the Lord. If you do that, he will save you from the power of the Philistines.’
- 2 Chronicles 30:6So men took the letters from the king and his officers to all the people in Israel and Judah. The king's command said this: ‘A message to the people of Israel who have escaped from the power of the kings of Assyria. Turn back now to the Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel. Then he will turn back to you.
- Isaiah 55:6Come to serve the Lord now, while he lets you find him. Call out to him for help, while he is near you.
- Jeremiah 3:12Go now. Shout this message to my people in the north: “You people of Israel have not been faithful to me. But now return to me,” says the Lord. “I will not always turn away from you. I am kind and I forgive people. I will not be angry with you for ever,” says the Lord.
- Jeremiah 4:1The Lord says this: ‘People of Israel, you should return to me. If you want to do that, you must throw away your idols. Remove those disgusting things and do not turn away from me again.
- Joel 2:12‘Even now,’ the Lord says, ‘return to me and put me first. Eat no food. Cry and be very sad.
- Zechariah 1:3Now I, the Lord Almighty, say this to you: “If you return to me, I will return to you.”
- Acts 26:18You will help them to understand what is really true. They are like people who live in the dark. Teach them what is true about me. Then they will be like people who live in the light. Now Satan has power over them. Lead them from there into God's kingdom. Then God will forgive them for the wrong things that they have done. Because they believe in me, God will accept them as his own people.” ’
- Hosea 13:9I will destroy you, Israel. There will be nobody to help you.
- Jeremiah 2:19The wicked things that you have done will punish you. You are guilty because you have turned away from me. You have brought terrible trouble on yourselves, because you have turned against me, the Lord your God. Because you no longer respect me, you will realize that you are in great trouble.’ That is what the Lord God Almighty says.
- Lamentations 5:16And we have no king in Jerusalem any longer. We have sinned, so it will be very bad for us.
- Ezekiel 28:14I put you there with a cherub to be your guard. You lived on my holy mountain. You walked among the stones that burned with fire.
Commentaries on Hosea 14:1
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 1O Israel, return unto the Lord - These words may be considered as addressed to the people now in captivity; suffering much, but having still much more to suffer if they did not repent. But it seems all these evils might yet be prevented, though so positively predicted, if the people would repent and return; and the very exhortation to this repentance shows that they still had power to repent, and that God was ready to save them and avert all these evils…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 1O Israel, return - (now, quite) unto the Lord your God The heavy and scarcely interrupted tide of denunciation is now past. Billow upon billow have rolled over Ephraim and the last wave discharged itself in the overwhelming, indiscriminating destruction of the seat of its strength. As a nation, it was to cease to be. its separate existence was a curse, not a blessing; the offspring of rivalry, matured by apostasy; the parent, in its turn, of jealousy…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 1An exhortation to repentance. (Hos. 14:1-3) Blessings promised, showing the rich comforts of the gospel. (Hos. 14:4-8) The just and the wicked. (Hos. 14:9) Verses 1-3 Israel is exhorted to return unto Jehovah, from their sins and idols, by faith in his mercy, and grace through the promised Redeemer, and by diligently attending on his worship and service. Take away iniquity; lift it off as a burden we are ready to sink under, or as the stumbling-block we…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-9Destruction was not God's final message to his covenant people. Although judgment must happen, God's healing and restoring grace is stronger than human sin.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-91. fallen by thine iniquity--(Ho 5:5; 13:9).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Hosea 14
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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