Hosea 14:5-6 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Hosea 14:4-7

We have here an answer of peace to the prayers of returning Israel. They seek God's face, and they shall not seek in vain. God will be sure to meet those in a way of mercy who return to him in a way of duty. If we speak to God in good prayers, God will speak to us in good promises, as he answered the angel with good words and comfortable words, Zech. 1:13. If we take with us the foregoing words in our coming to God, we may take home with us these following words for our faith to feast upon;... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hosea 14:5

I will be as the dew unto Israel ,.... To spiritual Israel, to those that return to the Lord, take with them words, and pray unto him, whose backslidings are healed, and they are freely loved; otherwise it is said of apostate Israel or Ephraim, that they were "smitten, and their root dried up, and bore no fruit", Hosea 9:16 . These words, and the whole, context, respect future times, as Kimchi observes; even the conversion of Israel in the latter day, when they shall partake of all the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hosea 14:6

His branches shall spread ,.... As the well rooted cedars in Lebanon; see Numbers 24:6 . This respects the propagation of the church of God, and the interest of Christ in the world, as in the first times of the Gospel, and will be in the latter day; when the Gospel shall be spread everywhere; churches set up in all places; the Jews converted, and the fulness of the Gentiles brought in; and these like spreading branches, and fruitful boughs, abounding in grace and good works. The Targum is,... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 14:5

I will be as the dew unto Israel - On these metaphors I gladly avail myself of the elegant and just observations of Bp. Lowth. "These verses ( Hosea 14:5-7 ;) contain gracious promises of God's favor and blessings upon Israel's conversion. In the fifth verse, it is described by that refreshment which copious dews give to the grass in summer. If we consider the nature of the climate, and the necessity of dews in so hot a country, not only to refresh, but likewise to preserve life; if we... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 14:5

Verse 5 The Prophet now again repeats what he had said, that God, after restoring the people to favour, would be so beneficent, as to render apparent the fruit of reconciliation. Seeing that the Israelites had been afflicted, they ought to have imputed this to their own sins, they ought to have perceived by such proofs, the wrath of God. They had been so stupid as to have on the contrary imagined, that their adversities happened to them by chance. The Prophet had been much engaged in teaching... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 14:6

Verse 6 The Prophet goes on with the same subject, but joins the beginning of the first verse with the second clause of the former verse. He had said that the roots of the people would be deep when God should restore them. Now he adds, that their branches shall go on He mentions here “to go on” metaphorically for extending far; for branches of trees seem to go on, when they extend and spread themselves far and wide. His branches, then, shall go on; which means, that a tree, after striking... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 14:1-7

Repentance, or reformation. "O Israel, return unto the Lord thy God," etc. "After the prophet has set before the sinful nation in various ways its own guilt, and the punishment that awaits it, viz. the destruction of the kingdom, he concludes his addresses with a call to thorough conversion to the Lord, and the promise that the Lord will bestow his grace once more upon those who turn to him, and will bless them abundantly" (Delitzsch). The subject of these words is Repentance; or, the... 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

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Hosea 14:4-7

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hosea 14:5

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hosea 14:6

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 14:5

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 14:5

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 14:6

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 14:1-7

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 14:4-5

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 14:4-7

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 14:4-7

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