Hosea 14:4
I will heal their backsliding. I will love them freely. For my anger is turned away from him.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.
In Context
5I will be as the dew to Israel. He shall blossom as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.
Cross References
Exodus 15:26and he said, If thou will diligently hearken to the voice of LORD thy God, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases upon thee, wh
Numbers 25:11Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned my wrath away from the sons of Israel, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I did not consume the sons of Israel in my jealousy.
Psalms 10:14Thou have seen. For thou behold mischief and spite, to repay with thy hand. The poor man commits [himself] to thee. Thou have been the helper of the fatherless.
Psalms 78:38But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and destroyed not. Yea, many a time he turned his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.
Isaiah 57:18I have seen his ways, and will heal him. I will lead him also, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.
Jeremiah 5:6Therefore a lion out of the forest shall kill them; a wolf of the evenings shall destroy them; a leopard shall watch against their cities. Everyone who goes out from there shall be torn in pieces, because their transgressions are m
Matthew Henry on Hosea 14:2-4
Penitents Encouraged. ( b. c. 720.) 1 O Israel, return unto the Lord thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity. 2 Take with you words, and turn to the Lord : say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips. 3 Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy. Here we have, I. A kind invitation given to sinners to repent, v. 1 . It is… Read the whole commentary →