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The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 14:4

Gracious assurances. As the father was forward to meet and to welcome the returning prodigal, so our heavenly Father is ever anxious and ready to console and to restore the wandering sinner who repents, confesses, and deplores his transgressions, and casts himself upon Divine compassion. The assurances of this verse must have been comforting to Israel; they have been comforting to multitudes who have sought in the Word of God some consolation for their burdened and penitent spirits. I. ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 14:4-5

Return to God: its immediate effects. So soon as Israel shall return to Jehovah and offer the foregoing words of self-condemning supplication ( Hosea 14:2 , Hosea 14:3 ), they shall receive a glad welcome from him "who delighteth in mercy," and who will not "keep his anger for ever." The first clauses of this answer of blessing remind us that there are three results of religious revival which begin to be experienced at once. These are "the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ," in the form of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 14:4-7

I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him. The penitential prayer put in the mouth of the people receives in this verse a gracious response; words of contrite confession are echoed back in accents of compassion and consolation. When thus penitent and prayerful they returned to the Lord, he promises them favor as well as forgiveness, so as to heal the moral malady under which they had long labored, remedy the evil effects of their apostasy,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 14:4-7

These verses describe the happy result of Israel's penitence and the merciful response to Israel's prayer. 1. The pardon sought is secured, and that for the greatest sin—that of backsliding, and so for all minor trespasses. The acceptance prayed for is presently and plentifully vouchsafed. The dark storm-cloud of God's wrath is dispersed and dispelled forever. 2. We next learn the fullness of God's forgiving love and his superabundant mercy to them that trust in him. By the most... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 14:4-8

God's response to the penitent. Israel's repentance will be followed by the turning away of God's anger, and by superabundant blessings. Figures are heaped on each other, and one figure is employed to fill in another, to set forth the fullness with which this blessing will descend. The prophecy, hitherto so dark and troubled, ends in heavenly peace. I. BACKSLIDING HEALED . ( Hosea 14:4 ) No time is lost in answering Israel's prayer. Forgiveness follows close upon return. So David... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 14:5

The heavenly dewfall. The former part of the chapter describes the experience through which a Church or a soul must pass before the fulfillment of this promise. The repentance, the vows, the hopes of the penitent are here crowned by Divine goodness. With a startling and sudden transition, in the fourth verse, Jehovah is represented as interposing amidst the prayers of those returning to him. So our Lord describes the father as unable to listen to the close of the prodigal's confession,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 14:5-6

The bedewed Church. This is a description of the condition of a Church which has received the fulfillment of the promise, "I will be as the dew unto Israel." Its blessedness is so full and so varied in its manifestations that no one emblem would suffice to represent it. Hence the text is crowded with imagery. The bedewed Church has these characteristics. I. GROWTH . "He shall grow as the lily." 1. This presupposes life. A lifeless log would not grow, however rich the soil,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 14:5-7

National prosperity. The prospect of Israel's repentance and reformation fills the mind of the prophet with a happy exultation, and suggests imagery of the most beautiful and vivacious description. The poetical allusions crowd in upon his mind and flow from his pen with a harmonious prodigality. Reading this passage, we are transported in imagination into the scenes of verdure, fragrance, and fruitfulness, which furnished Hosea with the lively emblems of that national prosperity which he was... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 14:5-8

Return to God: its ultimate results. These are like the effects of the dew of heaven upon garden and landscape. They are, in fact, the results of the Divine influence which God the Holy Spirit bestows upon returning penitents. The imagery of the passage is borrowed from the vegetable kingdom, and reminds us of that of the Song of Solomon. The prophet employs a combination of emblems—the lily, the cedar, the olive, the corn-field, the vineyard, because it requires them all to furnish an... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hosea 14:4

I will heal their backsliding - God, in answer, promises to “heal” that wound of their souls, from where every other evil came, their fickleness and unsteadfastness. Hitherto, this had been the characteristic of Israel. “Within a while they forgat His works, and would not abide His counsels” Psalms 106:13. “They forgat what He had done. Their heart was not whole with Him; neither continued they steadfast in His covenant. They turned back and tempted God. They kept not His testimonies, but... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 14:4

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hosea 14:4

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