New King James Version
Hosea 14:4
4“I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely, For My anger has turned away from him.
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 Living Translation (NLT)The Lord says, “Then I will heal you of your faithlessness; my love will know no bounds, for my anger will be gone forever.
Context of Hosea 14:4
2Take words with you, And return to the Lord. Say to Him, “Take away all iniquity; Receive us graciously, For we will offer the sacrifices of our lips. 3Assyria shall not save us, We will not ride on horses, Nor will we say anymore to the work of our hands, ‘You are our gods.’ For in You the fatherless finds mercy.” “I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely, For My anger has turned away from him. 5I will be like the dew to Israel; He shall grow like the lily, And lengthen his roots like Lebanon. 6His branches shall spread; His beauty shall be like an olive tree, And his fragrance like Lebanon.
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אֶרְפָּא֙ מְשׁ֣וּבָתָ֔ם אֹהֲבֵ֖ם נְדָבָ֑ה כִּ֛י שָׁ֥ב אַפִּ֖י מִמֶּֽנּוּ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Hosea 14:4
- Hosea 11:7My people are bent on backsliding from Me. Though they call to the Most High, None at all exalt Him.
- Exodus 15:26and said, “If you diligently heed the voice of the Lord your God and do what is right in His sight, give ear to His commandments and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have brought on the Egyptians. For I am the Lord who heals you.”
- Isaiah 57:18I have seen his ways, and will heal him; I will also lead him, And restore comforts to him And to his mourners.
- Jeremiah 3:22“Return, you backsliding children, And I will heal your backslidings.” “Indeed we do come to You, For You are the Lord our God.
- Jeremiah 5:6Therefore a lion from the forest shall slay them, A wolf of the deserts shall destroy them; A leopard will watch over their cities. Everyone who goes out from there shall be torn in pieces, Because their transgressions are many; Their backslidings have increased.
- Jeremiah 8:22Is there no balm in Gilead, Is there no physician there? Why then is there no recovery For the health of the daughter of my people?
- Jeremiah 14:7O Lord, though our iniquities testify against us, Do it for Your name’s sake; For our backslidings are many, We have sinned against You.
- Jeremiah 17:14Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; Save me, and I shall be saved, For You are my praise.
- Jeremiah 33:6Behold, I will bring it health and healing; I will heal them and reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth.
- Matthew 9:12When Jesus heard that, He said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick.
- Deuteronomy 7:7The Lord did not set His love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any other people, for you were the least of all peoples;
- Zephaniah 3:17The Lord your God in your midst, The Mighty One, will save; He will rejoice over you with gladness, He will quiet you with His love, He will rejoice over you with singing.”
- Romans 3:24being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
- Ephesians 1:6to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved.
- Ephesians 2:4But God, who is 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 given to us in Christ Jesus before time began,
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
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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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