Verse 7
"They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive as the grain, and blossom as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon."
"This, of course, cannot be applied in any ultimate sense to the restoration of the Jews in the days of Ezra and Zerubbabel, for the subsequent history of the Jews does not bear this description out. This is Hosea's way of expressing God's promise to fulfil the covenant God made with Abraham and Abraham's spiritual posterity (Christians). It is evident that Hosea 14 is entirely Messianic in its "terminus ad quem" (end). It is a prophecy describing the spiritual inheritance that was to come in Christ."[17]
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