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Hosea 14:1
O Israel, return unto the Lord, thy God, to the God of the Messianic covenant; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity, but there is still a possibility of returning.
O Israel, return unto the Lord, thy God, to the God of the Messianic covenant; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity, but there is still a possibility of returning.
CHAPTER XIV _By the terrible denunciation of vengeance which concludes the_ _preceding chapter, the prophet is led to exhort Israel to_ _repentance, furnishing them with a beautiful form of prayer,...
O 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 its...
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...
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...
RETURN. Compare Hosea 12:6; Joel 2:13. UNTO. quite up to. Hebrew. _ad_. not merely "toward", which would be. _el_. FOR. Compare Hosea 13:9. INIQUITY. Hebrew. _'avah._ App-44. Some codices, with t
_return … for thou hast fallen_ To -stumble" or to -fall" means to be visited by a calamity (as Hosea 4:3; Hosea 5:5). Experience has shown the Israelites, to quote Jeremiah (Hosea 2:19), -what an evi...
DISCOURSE: 1175 DIRECTIONS FOR AN ACCEPTABLE APPROACH TO GOD Hosea 14:1. O Israel, return unto the Lord thy God; for hast fallen by thine iniquity. Take with you words, and turn to the Lord: say unto...
LOVE RECONCILING PEACE REMAINSLURED TEXT: Hosea 14:1-3 1 O Israel, return unto Jehovah thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity. 2 Take with you words, and return unto Jehovah: say unto hi...
O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity. O ISRAEL, RETURN UNTO THE LORD THY GOD; FOR THOU HAST FALLEN BY THINE INIQUITY - (Hosea 5:5; Hosea 13:9, "O Israel, t...
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...
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....
XIV. (1) THY. — Tenderness and inextinguishable love are suggested by the use of the pronoun. “Repentance (say the Rabbis) presses right up to the Eternal Throne.”...
_[Hosea 14:2]_ שׁ֚וּבָה יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל עַ֖ד יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֑יךָ...
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...
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...
“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...
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...
O Israel, (a) return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity. (a) He exhorts them to repentance to avoid all these plagues, exhorting them to declare by words their obedience an...
_Perish, because she hath stirred up her God to bitterness. It is not a curse or imprecation, but a prophecy of what should come to pass (Challoner) to Israel, in Assyria. Many such expressions occur,...
CONTENTS In this Chapter the man of God closeth his prophecy, in the sweetest and tenderest expressions of the Lord's grace and mercy. Israel is shown his fall by nature; and the richest promises fol...
We may divide this Chapter into three grand parts. The first, in which the Holy Ghost points out to Israel his fall, and shows what method he is to take in seeking to the Lord for a recovery. The seco...
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...
_COME BACK! COME BACK!_ Hosea 14:1 All sin is departing from God. Holiness is living near to God. The first thing a sinner has got to do is to return. Repentance is returning to God. How is a sinner...
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...
Here the Prophet exhorts the Israelites to repentance, and still propounds some hope of mercy. But this may seem inconsistent as he had already testified that there would be no remedy any more, becaus...
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...
O ISRAEL, RETURN UNTO THE LORD THY GOD,.... From whom they had revolted and backslidden; whose worship and service they had forsaken, and whose word and ordinances they had slighted and neglected, and...
O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity. Ver. 1. _O Israel, return unto the Lord_] _Usque ad Dominum,_ all the way to God, as far as to the Lord: give not the h...
_O Israel, return unto the Lord thy God_ O Israel, return now at length, after thou hast suffered so many evils, to the Lord by true repentance and reformation of conduct. The whole family of Israel,...
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...
HOSEA CHAPTER 14 An exhortation to repentance, HOSEA 14:1. A promise of God's blessing, HOSEA 14:4. O ISRAEL, you that are the true Israel of God, you that are the remnant amidst so great a body of in...
Hosea 14:1 Israel H3478 return H7725 (H8798) LORD H3068 God H430 stumbled H3782 (H8804) iniquity H5771 re
‘O Israel, return to YHWH your God, for you have fallen by your iniquity.' Hosea's initial call is for Israel to return to YHWH their God from the iniquity (inherent wickedness, total disloyalty) into...
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...
Hosea 14:1 How to return to God. I. The first act of the awakened soul is usually an act of prayer, and it is most natural, and indeed most proper, that it should be so. The very act of expressing ou...
Hosea 14:1 While the freeness of God's mercy is the leading idea suggested by these words, it is not the only one; on the contrary, the condition of our nature is accurately expressed, as is the mode...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_O Israel, return unto the Lord thy God._ MAN’S EVIL ESTATE, AND HOPE OF DELIVERANCE While the freeness of God’s mercy is the leading idea suggested by the text, it is not the only one: the conditio...
HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 14:1 Hosea finishes his book with a series of moving appeals to the wayward northern kingdom to return to the Lord and find healing and covenant renewal. ⇐
CRITICAL NOTES.] The guilt of the sinful nation and the punishment awaiting have been described: now there is a call to conversion, and a promise that God will bless abundantly. HOSEA 14:1. RETURN] He...
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...
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...
1 Samuel 7:3; 1 Samuel 7:4; 2 Chronicles 30:6; Acts 26:18; Eze
Fallen — Thy sins have involved thee in endless troubles....