Hosea 14:4

Heal... Love. — If the foregoing be the offering of penitent lips, then the majestic reply of Jehovah is full of superlative grace.

Related Commentaries of Hosea 14:4

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I will heal their backsliding - God, in answer, promises to “heal” that wound of their souls, from where every other evil came, their fickleness...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

(e) I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him. (e) He declares how ready God is to receive thos...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Hosea 14:1-9 (Heb. Hosea 14:2-9 ). Israel's Repentance and Yahweh's Forgiveness. The section begins with a passionate appeal to Israel to repe...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

back-sliding. Compare Hosea 11:7 ; Jeremiah 5:6 ; Jeremiah 14:7 . him: i.e. Israel.
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

God here confirms what we have observed respecting his gratuitous reconciliation, nor is the repetition useless; for as men are disposed to ent...
Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 1176 THE BLESSINGS THAT PENITENTS MAY EXPECT Hosea 14:4 . I will heal their backsliding; I will love them freely: for mine anger is t...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him. I will heal their backsliding - Here is the answer of...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Freely— Are good works then nothing, you will say? "Is there no place at all for them in the doctrine of repentance? I answer, that hitherto the di...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him. I will heal their backsliding, I will love th...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Israel will Surely Repent and be Forgiven Hosea makes a touching final appeal for repentance. He assures Israel of God's mercy, and closes with a...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THE FINAL ARGUMENT Hosea 12:1-14 - Hosea 14:1 THE impassioned call with which the last chapter closed was by no means an assurance of salvat...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

2. THE LAST JUDGMENT Hosea 13:1-16 - Hosea 14:1 The crisis draws on. On the one hand Israel's sin, accumulating, bulks ripe for judgment. On...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

"I WILL BE AS THE DEW" Hosea 14:2-9 LIKE the Book of Amos, the Book of Hosea, after proclaiming the people's inevitable doom, turns to a blesse...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“I Will Heal Their Backsliding” Hosea 13:15-16 ; Hosea 14:1-9 The prophet here ransacks the world of nature for phrases sufficiently expressiv...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The cycle closes with the final call of the prophet, and the promise of Jehovah. The call was to the people to return, because by iniquity they had f...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Here we have the second division of the Chapter, in a Cluster of the richest promises. Reader! contemplate the Lord Jesus in all these precious thing...
James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

BACKSLIDING AND ITS CURE ‘I will heal their backsliding.’ Hosea 14:4 In the English Bible the word ‘backsliding’ is found fifteen times, and...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

I will heal their backslidings ,.... This and what follows is the Lord's answer to the above prayer; and this clause particularly is an answer to th...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him. Ver. 4. I will heal their backslidings ] Relapses,...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

I will heal their backsliding I will deliver them from a backsliding heart and way, and remove those judgments they have brought upon themselves th...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Assurance of Mercy; Repentance of Ephraim. B. C. 720....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

I will heal: it is a usual metaphor in Scripture; sin is our disease. God is the Physician who healeth us, Psalms 103:3 Jeremiah 3:22 ; and he...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Israel Are Called On To Return To YHWH With The Assurance That When They Do So YHWH Will Restore Them And Love Them Freely, And They Then Learn Of A...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely; for my anger is turned away from him.' YHWH's response will then be that He will heal their...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.] Hosea 14:4 . ] Promise of mercy follows. First heal all injury caused by apostasy. Freely ] Gratuitously and with perfect spo...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

According to the heading of this chapter, we have here «an exhortation to repentance,» and «a promise of God's blessing.» Hosea 14:1 . O Israel, r...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Hosea 14:1 . O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity. Come back, poor wanderer! My brother or my sister,...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Hosea 14:1 . O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; Bless his name that he is still thy God, however much thou mayest have backslidden, thou ha...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Hosea 14:1 . O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity. Let anyone here, who has turned aside from the Lord,...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Hosea 14:1 . O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity. When we fall by sin, we must regain our comfort by g...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Hosea 14:2 . So will we render the calves of our lips. The fruit of our lips, in worship, in praise, and in all holy obedience. The sacrifices of...
The Biblical Illustrator

I will heal their backsliding. The awful stale of backsliders In the history of the Israelites there is no feature more striking than their fre...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Hosea 14:1 The foregoing part of this book abounds with denunciations of punishment; this closing chapter superabounds with prom...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

A Final Exhortation to Return, with a Promise of Redemption. After having shown the apostate Israelites in various ways in what their guilt consis...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

I will heal their backsliding, all the calamities brought upon them by their unfaithfulness to the Lord; I will love them freely, with the fullness...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Corinthians 5:19-21 ; 2 Timothy 1:9 ; Deuteronomy 7:7 ; Deuteronomy 7:8 ; Ephesians 1:6 ; Ephesians 2:4-9 ; Exodus 15:26 ; Hosea 11:7 ; Is...

⁴ I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.

Related Commentaries of Hosea 14:4

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Hosea 14:4