Hosea 14:4

Yahweh says, “If they say that to me, I will forgive them for having ◄turned away from/abandoned► me, and I will love them with all my inner being, because I [PRS] will have stopped being angry with them.

Translation for Translators

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

3We admit that Assyria will not save us, and our war horses will not save us, either. We will never again say, ‘You are our gods’ to the idols that we [SYN] have made. You are the one who acts mercifully to orphans.”

5I will be to the people of Israel like dew that refreshes the soil. When I do that, they will become as delightful as [MET] lilies are when they are blooming. No one will be able to conquer them; they will be as unmovable as [SIM] the roots of cedar trees.

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Cross References

Exodus 15:26by saying, “I am Yahweh, your God. If you will carefully obey me when I speak to you, and do those things that I know are right, and pay close attention to all the things that I command you, I will keep you from being afflicted by all the diseases that I brought on the Egyptians. Do not forget that I am the one who heals you.”

Numbers 25:11“Phinehas has caused me to stop being angry with the Israeli people, by being as eager as I am to stop this sinful behavior. I was ready to get rid of all the Israeli people because I was extremely angry, but Phinehas has prevented me from doing that.

Psalms 10:14But you see the trouble and the distress that they cause. People who are suffering expect that you will help them; and you help orphans, also.

Psalms 78:38But God was merciful to his people. He forgave them for having sinned and did not get rid of them. Many times he refrained from becoming angry with them and restrained from furiously/severely punishing them [MTY].

Isaiah 57:18I have seen the evil things that they continually do, but I will restore them and lead them. I will encourage/comfort them. And to those who are mourning,

Jeremiah 5:6Because of that, lions will come out of the forests and kill them; wolves from the desert will attack them; leopards that lurk/wait outside their cities will maul anyone who walks outside the cities. Those things will happen because the people have sinned very much against God and have turned away from him very frequently.

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 →

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