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Your sins have been your downfall!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/hosea/14.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for your sins have brought you down.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/hosea/14.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled because of your iniquity.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/hosea/14.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled by your iniquity.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/hosea/14.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/hosea/14.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />O Israel, return to the LORD your God, For you have stumbled because of your iniquity;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/hosea/14.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />Return, Israel, to the LORD your God, For you have stumbled because of your wrongdoing.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/hosea/14.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, For you have stumbled because of your iniquity.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/hosea/14.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, For you have stumbled because of your iniquity.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/hosea/14.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />Return, O Israel, to Yahweh your God, For you have stumbled in your iniquity.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/hosea/14.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />O Israel, return [in repentance] to the LORD your God, For you have stumbled <i>and</i> fallen [visited by tragedy], because of your sin.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/hosea/14.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Israel, return to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled in your iniquity.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/hosea/14.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Israel, return to Yahweh your God, for you have stumbled in your sin. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/hosea/14.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />O Israel, return unto Jehovah thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/hosea/14.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Israel, return! Come back to the LORD, your God. Sin has made you fall. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/hosea/14.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />O ISRAEL, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/hosea/14.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />Israel, return to the LORD your God. You have stumbled because of your sins.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/hosea/14.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />Return to the LORD your God, people of Israel. Your sin has made you stumble and fall. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/hosea/14.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br /> "Return, Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have fallen due to your own iniquity.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/hosea/14.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled by your iniquity.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/hosea/14.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for your sin has been your downfall! <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/hosea/14.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />Israel, return to the LORD your God; for you have fallen because of your sin.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/hosea/14.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />O Israel, return to the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thy iniquity.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/hosea/14.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />Israel, return to Yahweh your God; for you have fallen because of your sin. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/hosea/14.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />“Turn back, O Israel, to your God YHWH, "" For you have stumbled by your iniquity.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/hosea/14.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> Turn back, O Israel, unto Jehovah thy God, For thou hast stumbled by thine iniquity.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/hosea/14.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />Turn back, O Israel, even to Jehovah thy God, for thou wert weak in thine iniquity.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/hosea/14.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Return, O Israel, to the Lord thy God: for thou hast fallen down by thy iniquity. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/hosea/14.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br /><V 14:2>Israel, convert to the Lord your God. For you have been ruined by your own iniquity.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/hosea/14.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Return, Israel, to the LORD, your God; you have stumbled because of your iniquity. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/hosea/14.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled because of your iniquity.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/hosea/14.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />O ISRAEL, return to the LORD your God; for you have fallen by your iniquity.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/hosea/14.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />Turn, Israel, to LORD JEHOVAH your God, because you have been subverted by your evil<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/hosea/14.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />Return, O Israel, unto the LORD thy God; For thou hast stumbled in thine iniquity.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/hosea/14.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />Return, O Israel, to the Lord thy God; for the people have fallen through thine iniquities.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/hosea/14-1.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xpPG1oLnpGk?start=2120" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/hosea/14.htm">An Exhortation to Repentance</a></span><br> <span class="reftext">1</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/7725.htm" title="7725: ū·ḇāh (V-Qal-Imp-ms:: 3fs) -- A primitive root; to turn back transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively; generally to retreat; often adverbial, again.">Return,</a> <a href="/hebrew/3478.htm" title="3478: yiś·rā·’êl (N-proper-ms) -- From sarah and 'el; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also of his posterity.">O Israel,</a> <a href="/hebrew/5704.htm" title="5704: ‘aḏ (Prep) -- As far as, even to, up to, until, while. Properly, the same as ad; as far as, whether of space or time or degree.">to</a> <a href="/hebrew/3068.htm" title="3068: Yah·weh (N-proper-ms) -- The proper name of the God of Israel. From hayah; self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God.">the LORD</a> <a href="/hebrew/430.htm" title="430: ’ĕ·lō·he·ḵā (N-mpc:: 2ms) -- Plural of 'elowahh; gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used of the supreme God">your God,</a> <a href="/hebrew/3588.htm" title="3588: kî (Conj) -- That, for, when. ">for</a> <a href="/hebrew/3782.htm" title="3782: ḵā·šal·tā (V-Qal-Perf-2ms) -- To stumble, stagger, totter. A primitive root; to totter or waver; by implication, to falter, stumble, faint or fall.">you have stumbled</a> <a href="/hebrew/5771.htm" title="5771: ba·‘ă·wō·ne·ḵā (Prep-b:: N-csc:: 2ms) -- Iniquity, guilt, punishment for iniquity. Or oavown; from avah; perversity, i.e. evil.">by your iniquity.</a> </span><span class="reftext">2</span>Bring your confessions and return to the LORD. Say to Him: “Take away all our iniquity and receive us graciously, that we may present the fruit of our lips.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/joel/2-12.htm">Joel 2:12-13</a></span><br />“Yet even now,” declares the LORD, “return to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.” / So rend your hearts and not your garments, and return to the LORD your God. For He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion. And He relents from sending disaster.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/3-12.htm">Jeremiah 3:12-14</a></span><br />Go, proclaim this message toward the north: ‘Return, O faithless Israel,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will no longer look on you with anger, for I am merciful,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will not be angry forever. / Only acknowledge your guilt, that you have rebelled against the LORD your God. You have scattered your favors to foreign gods under every green tree and have not obeyed My voice,’” declares the LORD. / “Return, O faithless children,” declares the LORD, “for I am your master, and I will take you—one from a city and two from a family—and bring you to Zion.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/55-6.htm">Isaiah 55:6-7</a></span><br />Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near. / Let the wicked man forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that He may have compassion, and to our God, for He will freely pardon.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/zechariah/1-3.htm">Zechariah 1:3</a></span><br />So tell the people that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Return to Me, declares the LORD of Hosts, and I will return to you, says the LORD of Hosts.’<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/18-30.htm">Ezekiel 18:30-32</a></span><br />Therefore, O house of Israel, I will judge you, each according to his ways, declares the Lord GOD. Repent and turn from all your transgressions, so that your iniquity will not become your downfall. / Cast away from yourselves all the transgressions you have committed, and fashion for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Why should you die, O house of Israel? / For I take no pleasure in anyone’s death, declares the Lord GOD. So repent and live!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/deuteronomy/30-1.htm">Deuteronomy 30:1-3</a></span><br />“When all these things come upon you—the blessings and curses I have set before you—and you call them to mind in all the nations to which the LORD your God has banished you, / and when you and your children return to the LORD your God and obey His voice with all your heart and all your soul according to everything I am giving you today, / then He will restore you from captivity and have compassion on you and gather you from all the nations to which the LORD your God has scattered you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_chronicles/30-6.htm">2 Chronicles 30:6-9</a></span><br />At the command of the king, the couriers went throughout Israel and Judah with letters from the king and his officials, which read: “Children of Israel, return to the LORD, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so that He may return to those of you who remain, who have escaped the grasp of the kings of Assyria. / Do not be like your fathers and brothers who were unfaithful to the LORD, the God of their fathers, so that He made them an object of horror, as you can see. / Now do not stiffen your necks as your fathers did. Submit to the LORD and come to His sanctuary, which He has consecrated forever. Serve the LORD your God, so that His fierce anger will turn away from you. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/4-1.htm">Jeremiah 4:1</a></span><br />“If you will return, O Israel, return to Me,” declares the LORD. “If you will remove your detestable idols from My sight and no longer waver,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/malachi/3-7.htm">Malachi 3:7</a></span><br />Yet from the days of your fathers, you have turned away from My statutes and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you,” says the LORD of Hosts. “But you ask, ‘How can we return?’<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/lamentations/3-40.htm">Lamentations 3:40-41</a></span><br />Let us examine and test our ways, and turn back to the LORD. / Let us lift up our hearts and hands to God in heaven:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/acts/3-19.htm">Acts 3:19</a></span><br />Repent, then, and turn back, so that your sins may be wiped away,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/3-2.htm">Matthew 3:2</a></span><br />and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/luke/15-18.htm">Luke 15:18-20</a></span><br />I will get up and go back to my father and say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. / I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants.”’ / So he got up and went to his father. But while he was still in the distance, his father saw him and was filled with compassion. He ran to his son, embraced him, and kissed him.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/james/4-8.htm">James 4:8</a></span><br />Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_john/1-9.htm">1 John 1:9</a></span><br />If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">O Israel, return to the LORD your God; for you have fallen by your iniquity.</p><p class="hdg">return.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/hosea/6-1.htm">Hosea 6:1</a></b></br> Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/hosea/12-6.htm">Hosea 12:6</a></b></br> Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/1_samuel/7-3.htm">1 Samuel 7:3,4</a></b></br> And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying, If ye do return unto the LORD with all your hearts, <i>then</i> put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare your hearts unto the LORD, and serve him only: and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines… </p><p class="hdg">thou.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/hosea/13-9.htm">Hosea 13:9</a></b></br> O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me <i>is</i> thine help.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/jeremiah/2-19.htm">Jeremiah 2:19</a></b></br> Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that <i>it is</i> an evil <i>thing</i> and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear <i>is</i> not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/lamentations/5-16.htm">Lamentations 5:16</a></b></br> The crown is fallen <i>from</i> our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/hosea/13-10.htm">Cause</a> <a href="/daniel/11-34.htm">Downfall</a> <a href="/hosea/10-15.htm">Evil-Doing</a> <a href="/hosea/13-16.htm">Fall</a> <a href="/hosea/7-7.htm">Fallen</a> <a href="/hosea/13-12.htm">Iniquity</a> <a href="/hosea/13-10.htm">Israel</a> <a href="/hosea/13-12.htm">Sin</a> <a href="/hosea/13-12.htm">Sins</a> <a href="/hosea/5-5.htm">Stumbled</a> <a href="/hosea/12-14.htm">Turn</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/hosea/14-8.htm">Cause</a> <a href="/obadiah/1-13.htm">Downfall</a> <a href="/amos/5-12.htm">Evil-Doing</a> <a href="/hosea/14-9.htm">Fall</a> <a href="/amos/3-14.htm">Fallen</a> <a href="/hosea/14-2.htm">Iniquity</a> <a href="/hosea/14-5.htm">Israel</a> <a href="/amos/4-4.htm">Sin</a> <a href="/hosea/14-2.htm">Sins</a> <a href="/matthew/11-6.htm">Stumbled</a> <a href="/hosea/14-2.htm">Turn</a><div class="vheading2">Hosea 14</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/hosea/14-1.htm">An exhortation to repentance.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">4. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/hosea/14-4.htm">A promise of God's blessing.</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> <br /><br /> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/hosea/14.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/hosea/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/hosea/14.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div><b>Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God</b><br>This call to return is a central theme in the prophetic literature, emphasizing repentance and restoration. The Hebrew word for "return" (shuv) implies a complete turning back to God, not just a physical return but a spiritual renewal. The context of Hosea is the Northern Kingdom of Israel, which had fallen into idolatry and moral decay. The call to return is a plea for the people to abandon their false gods and renew their covenant relationship with Yahweh. This echoes the Deuteronomic theme of returning to God with all one's heart and soul (<a href="/deuteronomy/30-2.htm">Deuteronomy 30:2</a>). The phrase "the LORD your God" reaffirms the covenant identity of Israel, reminding them of their unique relationship with Yahweh, who is both their God and their redeemer.<p><b>for you have stumbled by your iniquity</b><br>The imagery of stumbling suggests a fall from a path, indicating that Israel's sins have caused them to deviate from God's ways. Iniquity here refers to the moral and spiritual corruption that has led to their downfall. This is consistent with the broader narrative of Hosea, where Israel's unfaithfulness is likened to adultery. The consequences of their iniquity are evident in the socio-political turmoil and impending judgment they face. The concept of stumbling is also found in <a href="/proverbs/4-19.htm">Proverbs 4:19</a>, where the wicked are described as stumbling in darkness, highlighting the spiritual blindness caused by sin. This phrase serves as both a diagnosis of Israel's condition and a motivation for their return, as it underscores the need for repentance to restore their relationship with God.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/h/hosea.htm">Hosea</a></b><br>A prophet in the Northern Kingdom of Israel, Hosea's ministry focused on calling Israel back to faithfulness to God amidst widespread idolatry and moral decay.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/i/israel.htm">Israel</a></b><br>The Northern Kingdom, often characterized by its rebellion against God and its pursuit of foreign gods, leading to its eventual downfall.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_lord.htm">The LORD (Yahweh)</a></b><br>The covenant God of Israel, who remains faithful and calls His people to repentance and restoration.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/i/iniquity.htm">Iniquity</a></b><br>The sin and moral failings of Israel, which have caused them to stumble and fall away from their covenant relationship with God.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/r/repentance.htm">Repentance</a></b><br>The central theme of this verse, emphasizing a return to God and a turning away from sin.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/t/the_call_to_return.htm">The Call to Return</a></b><br>God’s invitation to return is a demonstration of His enduring love and mercy. Despite Israel's unfaithfulness, God desires restoration.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/r/recognition_of_sin.htm">Recognition of Sin</a></b><br>Acknowledging our iniquity is the first step toward repentance. Like Israel, we must recognize where we have stumbled.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_nature_of_repentance.htm">The Nature of Repentance</a></b><br>True repentance involves a change of heart and direction, turning away from sin and back to God.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/g/god's_faithfulness.htm">God’s Faithfulness</a></b><br>Even when we are unfaithful, God remains steadfast. His call to return is rooted in His covenant love.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/p/practical_repentance.htm">Practical Repentance</a></b><br>Repentance should lead to tangible changes in behavior and renewed commitment to God’s ways.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_hosea_14.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Hosea 14</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_does_hosea_14_1-2_align_with_sacrifices.htm">How can Hosea 14:1–2’s call to repentance through spoken words alone reconcile with the Old Testament’s emphasis on blood sacrifices? </a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/key_themes_of_the_minor_prophets.htm">What are the key themes of the Minor Prophets?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what_defines_a_good_conscience.htm">What are the key themes of the Minor Prophets?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_does_'flourish_like_a_lily'_fit_then.htm">How does the imagery of Israel flourishing “like a lily” (Hosea 14:5–6) match up with known agricultural and climatic conditions of that time period? </a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/hosea/14.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>XIV.</span><p>(1) <span class= "bld">Thy.</span>--Tenderness and inextinguishable love are suggested by the use of the pronoun. "Repentance (say the Rabbis) presses right up to the Eternal Throne."<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/hosea/14.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 1.</span> - 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 rolled over Israel and come in unto their soul; now offer after offer of grace is made to them. O Israel, return unto the Lord thy God. The invitation to return implies previous departure, or distance, or wandering from God. The return to which they are invited is expressed, not by <span class="hebrew">אֶל</span>, to or towards, but by <span class="hebrew">ער</span>, quite up to, or as far as right home; the penitent, therefore, is not merely to turn his mind or his face toward God, but to turn his face and his feet home to God; he is not to go half the way and then turn aside, or part of the way and then turn back, but the whole way; in other words, his repentance is to be complete and entire, wanting nothing, according to the state merit of the psalmist, "It is good for me to draw near to God." As punishment was threatened in case of obstinate impenitence, so mercy is promised on condition of thorough repentance. <span class="cmt_word">For thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.</span> A reason is here assigned for the preceding invitation; <span class="accented">ka-shalta</span> is properly "thou hast stumbled," "made a false step," fallen, yet so that recovery was among future possibilities. The same thought may be included in the fact that Jehovah continues to call his erring people by the honored and honorable name of Israel, and to acknowledge himself their God. Further, many and grievous were the calamities into which by their fall they had been precipitated; neither were any to blame but themselves - their iniquity or their folly was the cause, nor was there any one to lift them up, now that they lay prostrate, save Jehovah. After referring to the desolation of Samaria and the ruthless destruction of its inhabitants, as portrayed in the last verse of the previous chapter, Jerome adds, "All Israel is invited to repentance, that he who has been debilitated, or has fallen headlong in his iniquities, may return to the physician and recover health, or that he who had fallen headlong may begin to stand." The penitent is to direct his thoughts to Jehovah; to him as Center he is attracted, and in him he finds his place of rest; nor is there ether means of recovery or source of help. Thus Kimchi says, "For thou seest that through thine iniquity thou hast fallen, therefore it behooves thee to return to Jehovah, as nothing besides can raise thee from thy fall but thy return to him." "There is none," says Aben Ezra, "can raise thee from thy fall but the Eternal alone." <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/hosea/14-1.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">Return,</span><br /><span class="heb">שׁ֚וּבָה</span> <span class="translit">(ū·ḇāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular | third person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7725.htm">Strong's 7725: </a> </span><span class="str2">To turn back, in, to retreat, again</span><br /><br /><span class="word">O Israel,</span><br /><span class="heb">יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל</span> <span class="translit">(yiś·rā·’êl)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3478.htm">Strong's 3478: </a> </span><span class="str2">Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc</span><br /><br /><span class="word">to</span><br /><span class="heb">עַ֖ד</span> <span class="translit">(‘aḏ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5704.htm">Strong's 5704: </a> </span><span class="str2">As far as, even to, up to, until, while</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the LORD</span><br /><span class="heb">יְהוָ֣ה</span> <span class="translit">(Yah·weh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3068.htm">Strong's 3068: </a> </span><span class="str2">LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel</span><br /><br /><span class="word">your God,</span><br /><span class="heb">אֱלֹהֶ֑יךָ</span> <span class="translit">(’ĕ·lō·he·ḵā)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_430.htm">Strong's 430: </a> </span><span class="str2">gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative</span><br /><br /><span class="word">for</span><br /><span class="heb">כִּ֥י</span> <span class="translit">(kî)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunction<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3588.htm">Strong's 3588: </a> </span><span class="str2">A relative conjunction</span><br /><br /><span class="word">you have stumbled</span><br /><span class="heb">כָשַׁ֖לְתָּ</span> <span class="translit">(ḵā·šal·tā)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3782.htm">Strong's 3782: </a> </span><span class="str2">To totter, waver, to falter, stumble, faint, fall</span><br /><br /><span class="word">by your iniquity.</span><br /><span class="heb">בַּעֲוֺנֶֽךָ׃</span> <span class="translit">(ba·‘ă·wō·ne·ḵā)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-b | Noun - common singular construct | second person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5771.htm">Strong's 5771: </a> </span><span class="str2">Iniquity, guilt, punishment for iniquity</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/hosea/14-1.htm">Hosea 14:1 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/hosea/14-1.htm">Hosea 14:1 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/hosea/14-1.htm">Hosea 14:1 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/hosea/14-1.htm">Hosea 14:1 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/hosea/14-1.htm">Hosea 14:1 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/hosea/14-1.htm">Hosea 14:1 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/hosea/14-1.htm">Hosea 14:1 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/hosea/14-1.htm">Hosea 14:1 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/hosea/14-1.htm">Hosea 14:1 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/hosea/14-1.htm">Hosea 14:1 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/hosea/14-1.htm">OT Prophets: Hosea 14:1 Israel return to Yahweh your God (Ho Hs Hos.) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/hosea/13-16.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Hosea 13:16"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Hosea 13:16" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/hosea/14-2.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Hosea 14:2"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Hosea 14:2" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>