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Text -- Hosea 14:1-6 (NET)
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Prophetic Call to Genuine Repentance
14:1 Return , O Israel , to the Lord your God , for your sin has been your downfall !
14:2 Return to the Lord and repent ! Say to him: “Completely forgive our iniquity ; accept our penitential prayer, that we may offer the praise of our lips as sacrificial bulls .
14:3 Assyria cannot save us; we will not ride warhorses . We will never again say , ‘Our gods ’ to what our own hands have made . For only you will show compassion to Orphan Israel!”
Divine Promise to Relent from Judgment and to Restore Blessings
14:4 “I will heal their waywardness and love them freely , for my anger will turn away from them.
14:5 I will be like the dew to Israel ; he will blossom like a lily , he will send down his roots like a cedar of Lebanon .
14:6 His young shoots will grow ; his splendor will be like an olive tree , his fragrance like a cedar of Lebanon .
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
HOSEA |
God |
Dew |
Lebanon |
Repentance |
Forest |
LILY |
Calf |
Backsliders |
Blessing |
Righteous |
LIP |
Confidence |
Children |
Branch |
Horse |
Sacrifices |
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Orphan |
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NET Notes: Hos 14:1 Heb “For you have stumbled in your iniquity”; NASB, NRSV “because of your iniquity.”
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NET Notes: Hos 14:3 Heb “For the orphan is shown compassion by you.” The present translation takes “orphan” as a figurative reference to Israel, w...
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NET Notes: Hos 14:4 The verb שָׁב, shav, “will turn” (Qal perfect 3rd person masculine singular from שׁוּ...
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