Hosea 14:3
Assyria can’t save us. We won’t ride on horses; neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, ‘Our gods!’ for in you the fatherless finds mercy.”
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In Context
4“I will heal their waywardness. I will love them freely; for my anger is turned away from them.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 17:16Only he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he may multiply horses; because the LORD has said to you, “You shall not go back that way again.”
Psalms 10:14But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.
Psalms 33:17A horse is a vain thing for safety, neither does he deliver any by his great power.
Psalms 146:3Don’t put your trust in princes, in a son of man in whom there is no help.
Proverbs 23:10Don’t move the ancient boundary stone. Don’t encroach on the fields of the fatherless,
Isaiah 2:20In that day, men shall cast away their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which have been made for themselves to worship, to the moles and to the bats,
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 →