“I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely, For My anger has turned away from him. I will be like the dew to Israel; He shall grow like the lily,

(1.) To be acquitted from guilt. When we return to the Lord we must say to him, Lord, take away all iniquity. They were now smarting for sin, under the load of ...

They shall return and dwell beneath my shadow – If you are in someone's shadow you are very close to them. Also, it signifies that you are under their ...

God Calls to Israel to Return to Him. 1 Return to the Lord your God, people of Israel. Your sin has made you fall. 2 Think about the things that you will say.

Israel seeks God's face, and they shall not seek it in vain. His anger is turned from them. Whom God loves, he loves freely; not because they deserve it, but of ...

Basically it means 'turn'; and Israel has habitually turned the wrong way. They have been 'bent on turning away from me', as 11:7 puts it. This, incidentally, ...

Hosea calls Israel to return to the LORD with a genuine heart. He gives them a prayer to pray, and urges them to pray it and renew their allegiance to ...

5 нояб. 2021 г. · Commentary on the Book of Hosea, Chapter 14: The long list of ways the people have broken their covenant with God has ended, and the prophet ...

"All needful grace will God bestow, And crown that grace with glory too; He gives us all things. and withholds No real good from upright souls." But it is ...

(1.) Shall be growing. The bad being by the grace of God made good, they shall by the same grace be made better; for grace, wherever it is true, is growing. [1.] ...