Hosea 14:1
O Israel, return unto the Lord thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.
Hosea 14:1 in other translations
| BSB | Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled by your iniquity. |
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| WEB | Israel, return to the LORD your God; for you have fallen because of your sin. |
| ASV | O Israel, return unto Jehovah thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity. |
| YLT | Turn back, O Israel, unto Jehovah thy God, For thou hast stumbled by thine iniquity. |
| DARBY | O Israel, return unto Jehovah thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity. |
| BBE | O Israel, come back to the Lord your God; for your evil-doing has been the cause of your fall. |
| Webster | O Israel, return to the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thy iniquity. |
What does Hosea 14:1 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Ho 14:1-9. God's Promise of Blessing, on Their Repentance: Their Abandonment of Idolatry Foretold: The Conclusion of the Whole, the Just Shall Walk in God's Ways, but the Transgressor Shall Fall Therein.
1. fallen by thine iniquity--(Ho 5:5; 13:9).Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Introduction
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, very suitable to the occasion, Hos 14:1-3. Upon which God, ever ready to pardon the penitent, is introduced making large promises of blessings, in allusion to those copious dews which refresh the green herbs, and which frequently denote, not only temporal salvation, but also the rich and refreshing comforts of the Gospel, Hos 14:4-7. Their reformation from idolatry is foretold, and their consequent prosperity, under the emblem of a green flourishing fir tree, Hos 14:8; but these promises are confined to those who may bring forth the fruits of righteousness, and the wicked are declared to have no share in them, Hos 14:9. Verse 1 O Israel, return unto the Lord - These words may be considered as addressed to the people now in captivity; suffering much, but having still much more to suffer if they did not repent. But it seems all these evils might yet be prevented, though so positively predicted, if the people would repent and return; and the very exhortation to this repentance shows that they still had power to repent, and that God was ready to save them and avert all these evils. All this is easily accounted for on the doctrine of the contingency of events, i.e., the poising a multitude of events on the possibility of being and not being, and leaving the will of man to turn the scale; and that God will not foreknow a thing as absolutely certain, which his will has determined to make contingent. A doctrine against which some solemn men have blasphemed, and philosophic infidels declaimed; but without which fate and dire necessity must be the universal governors, prayer be a useless meddling, and Providence nothing but the ineluctable adamantine chain of unchangeable events; all virtue is vice, and vice virtue, or there is no distinction between them, each being eternally determined and unalterably fixed by a sovereign and uncontrollable will and unvarying necessity, from the operation of which no soul of man can escape, and no occurrence in the universe be otherwise than it is. From such blasphemy, and from the monthly publications which avouch it, good Lord, deliver us!Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Hosea 14:1-3
Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain
Hosea 14:1 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Hosea 14:1
- Hosea 6:1
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.
- Joel 2:12-13
Therefore also now, saith the Lord, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning: And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.
- Hosea 12:6
Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually.
- 2 Chronicles 30:6-9
So the posts went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, Ye children of Israel, turn again unto the Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and he will return to the remnant of you, that are escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria. And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, which trespassed against the Lord God of their fathers, who therefore gave them up to desolation, as ye see. Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto the Lord, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever: and serve the Lord your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you. For if ye turn again unto the Lord, your brethren and your children shall find compassion before them that lead them captive, so that they shall come again into this land: for the Lord your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if ye return unto him.
- Zechariah 1:3-4
Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Turn ye unto me, saith the Lord of hosts, and I will turn unto you, saith the Lord of hosts. Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Turn ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the Lord.
- Isaiah 55:6-7
Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
- Jeremiah 4:1
If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the Lord, return unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not remove.
- Acts 26:18-20
To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me. Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision: But shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance.
- Hosea 13:9
O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me is thine help.
- Jeremiah 3:12-14
Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the Lord; and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you: for I am merciful, saith the Lord, and I will not keep anger for ever. Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the Lord thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the Lord. Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:
- Lamentations 5:16
The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
- Ezekiel 28:14-16
Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee. By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
4 A promise of God's blessing.
return.
6:1; 12:6; 1Sa 7:3,4; 2Ch 30:6-9; Isa 55:6,7; Jer 3:12-14; 4:1
Joe 2:12,13; Zec 1:3,4; Ac 26:18-20
thou.
13:9; Jer 2:19; La 5:16; Eze 28:14-16
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Context
- Hosea 14:1
O Israel, return unto the Lord thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.
- Hosea 14:2
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.
Hosea 14:1 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | CONVIÉRTETE, oh Israel, á Jehová tu Dios: porque por tu pecado has caído. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Samarie portera son iniquité, car elle s’est révoltée contre son Dieu; ils tomberont par l’épée, leurs petits enfants seront écrasés, et on fendra le ventre à leurs femmes enceintes. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Kehre um, Israel, bis zu Jehova, deinem Gott, denn du bist gefallen durch deine Ungerechtigkeit |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Pereat Samaria, quoniam ad amaritudinem concitavit Deum suum! in gladio pereant, parvuli eorum elidantur, et fœtæ ejus discindantur! |