Hosea 14:4

Hosea 14:4 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.
• New International Version (NIV)“I will heal their waywardness and love them freely, for my anger has turned away from them.
• English Standard Version (ESV)I will heal their apostasy; I will love them freely, for my anger has turned from them.
• New King James Version (NKJV)“I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely, For My anger has turned away from him.

Context of Hosea 14:4

2Take words with you and return to the Lord. Say to Him, “Take away all iniquity And receive us graciously, That we may present the fruit of our lips. 3Assyria will not save us, We will not ride on horses; Nor will we say again, ‘Our god,’ To the work of our hands; For in You the orphan finds mercy.” I will heal their apostasy, I will love them freely, For My anger has turned away from them. 5I will be like the dew to Israel; He will blossom like the lily, And he will take root like the cedars of Lebanon. 6His shoots will sprout, And his beauty will be like the olive tree And his fragrance like the cedars of Lebanon.

Hosea 14:4 word by word

אֶרְפָּא֙ מְשׁ֣וּבָתָ֔ם אֹהֲבֵ֖ם נְדָבָ֑ה כִּ֛י שָׁ֥ב אַפִּ֖י מִמֶּֽנּוּ׃Read the interlinear

• healרָפָאrâphâ' râphâh · to healH7495
• their apostasyמְשׁוּבָהmeshûbâh meshûbâh · faithlessnessH4878
• loveאָהֵב'âhab 'âhêb · to love: loverH157
• them freelyנְדָבָהnedâbâh · voluntarinessH5071
• For My angerאַף'aph · face: angerH639
• turnedשׁוּבshûb · to return: turn backH7725
• awayשׁוּבshûb · to return: turn backH7725

Cross-references for Hosea 14:4

• Hosea 11:7So My people are bent on turning from Me. Though they call them to the One on high, None at all exalts Him.
• Exodus 15:26And He said, “If you will give earnest heed to the voice of the Lord your God, and do what is right in His sight, and give ear to His commandments, and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have put on the Egyptians; for I, the Lord, am your healer.”
• Isaiah 57:18I have seen his ways, but I will heal him; I will lead him and restore comfort to him and to his mourners,
• Jeremiah 3:22“Return, O faithless sons, I will heal your faithlessness.” “Behold, we come to You; For You are the Lord our God.
• Jeremiah 5:6Therefore a lion from the forest will slay them, A wolf of the deserts will destroy them, A leopard is watching their cities. Everyone who goes out of them will be torn in pieces, Because their transgressions are many, Their apostasies are numerous.
• Jeremiah 8:22Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then has not the health of the daughter of my people been restored?
• Jeremiah 14:7Although our iniquities testify against us, O Lord, act for Your name’s sake! Truly our apostasies have been many, We have sinned against You.
• Jeremiah 17:14Heal me, O Lord, and I will be healed; Save me and I will be saved, For You are my praise.
• Jeremiah 33:6Behold, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal them; and I will reveal to them an abundance of peace and truth.
• Matthew 9:12But when Jesus heard this, He said, “It is not those who are healthy who need a physician, but those who are sick.
• Deuteronomy 7:7“The Lord did not set His love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any of the peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples,
• Zephaniah 3:17The Lord your God is in your midst, A victorious warrior. He will exult over you with joy, He will be quiet in His love, He will rejoice over you with shouts of joy.
• Romans 3:24being justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus;
• Ephesians 1:6to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He freely bestowed on us in the Beloved.
• Ephesians 2:4But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,
• 2 Timothy 1:9who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was granted us in Christ Jesus from all eternity,

Commentaries on Hosea 14:4

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 4I will heal their backsliding - Here is the answer of God to these prayers and resolutions. See its parts: - Ye have backslidden and fallen, and are grievously and mortally wounded by that fall; but I, who am the Author of life, and who redeem from death, will heal all these wounds and spiritual diseases. I will love them freely - נדבה nedabah, after a liberal, princely manner. I will love them so as to do them incessant good. It shall not be a love of…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 4I 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 characteristic of Israel. “Within a while they forgat His works, and would not abide His counsels” Psalm 106:13. “They forgat what He had done. Their heart was not whole with Him; neither continued they steadfast in His covenant. They turned back and tempted God…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 4-8Verses 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 to them all they need. The graces of the Spirit are the hidden manna, hidden in the dew; the grace thus freely bestowed on them shall not be in vain. They shall grow upward, and be more flourishing; shall grow as the lily. The lily, when come to its…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 4I will heal their apostasy: Only God can cure the disease of sin. The Lord heals all our physical and spiritual diseases (Psalm 103:3).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 44. God's gracious reply to their self-condemning prayer. backsliding--apostasy: not merely occasional backslidings. God can heal the most desperate sinfulness [Calvin]. freely--with a gratuitous, unmerited, and abundant love (Eze 16:60-63). So as to the spiritual Israel (Joh 15:16; Ro 3:24; 5:8; 1Jo 4:10).Read the comment

Topics related to Hosea 14:4

• Anger
• Backsliders
• God
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In the dictionaries

• Heal
• Backslide
• Freely
• Hosea
• Regeneration
• Unchangeable; Unchangeableness
• Zechariah, Book of

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