Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Return, Israel, to the LORD your God. Your sins have been your downfall! New Living Translation Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for your sins have brought you down. English Standard Version Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled because of your iniquity. Berean Standard Bible Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled by your iniquity. King James Bible O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity. New King James Version O Israel, return to the LORD your God, For you have stumbled because of your iniquity; New American Standard Bible Return, Israel, to the LORD your God, For you have stumbled because of your wrongdoing. NASB 1995 Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, For you have stumbled because of your iniquity. NASB 1977 Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, For you have stumbled because of your iniquity. Legacy Standard Bible Return, O Israel, to Yahweh your God, For you have stumbled in your iniquity. Amplified Bible O Israel, return [in repentance] to the LORD your God, For you have stumbled and fallen [visited by tragedy], because of your sin. Christian Standard Bible Israel, return to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled in your iniquity. Holman Christian Standard Bible Israel, return to Yahweh your God, for you have stumbled in your sin. American Standard Version O Israel, return unto Jehovah thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity. Contemporary English Version Israel, return! Come back to the LORD, your God. Sin has made you fall. English Revised Version O ISRAEL, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity. GOD'S WORD® Translation Israel, return to the LORD your God. You have stumbled because of your sins. Good News Translation Return to the LORD your God, people of Israel. Your sin has made you stumble and fall. International Standard Version "Return, Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have fallen due to your own iniquity. Majority Standard Bible Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled by your iniquity. NET Bible Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for your sin has been your downfall! New Heart English Bible Israel, return to the LORD your God; for you have fallen because of your sin. Webster's Bible Translation O Israel, return to the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thy iniquity. World English Bible Israel, return to Yahweh your God; for you have fallen because of your sin. Literal Translations Literal Standard Version“Turn back, O Israel, to your God YHWH, "" For you have stumbled by your iniquity. Young's Literal Translation Turn back, O Israel, unto Jehovah thy God, For thou hast stumbled by thine iniquity. Smith's Literal Translation Turn back, O Israel, even to Jehovah thy God, for thou wert weak in thine iniquity. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleReturn, O Israel, to the Lord thy God: for thou hast fallen down by thy iniquity. Catholic Public Domain Version New American Bible Return, Israel, to the LORD, your God; you have stumbled because of your iniquity. New Revised Standard Version Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled because of your iniquity. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleO ISRAEL, return to the LORD your God; for you have fallen by your iniquity. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated Turn, Israel, to LORD JEHOVAH your God, because you have been subverted by your evil OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917Return, O Israel, unto the LORD thy God; For thou hast stumbled in thine iniquity. Brenton Septuagint Translation Return, O Israel, to the Lord thy God; for the people have fallen through thine iniquities. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context An Exhortation to Repentance1Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled by your iniquity. 2Bring your confessions and return to the LORD. Say to Him: “Take away all our iniquity and receive us graciously, that we may present the fruit of our lips.… Cross References Joel 2:12-13 “Yet even now,” declares the LORD, “return to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.” / So rend your hearts and not your garments, and return to the LORD your God. For He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion. And He relents from sending disaster. Jeremiah 3:12-14 Go, proclaim this message toward the north: ‘Return, O faithless Israel,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will no longer look on you with anger, for I am merciful,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will not be angry forever. / Only acknowledge your guilt, that you have rebelled against the LORD your God. You have scattered your favors to foreign gods under every green tree and have not obeyed My voice,’” declares the LORD. / “Return, O faithless children,” declares the LORD, “for I am your master, and I will take you—one from a city and two from a family—and bring you to Zion. Isaiah 55:6-7 Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near. / Let the wicked man forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that He may have compassion, and to our God, for He will freely pardon. Zechariah 1:3 So tell the people that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Return to Me, declares the LORD of Hosts, and I will return to you, says the LORD of Hosts.’ Ezekiel 18:30-32 Therefore, O house of Israel, I will judge you, each according to his ways, declares the Lord GOD. Repent and turn from all your transgressions, so that your iniquity will not become your downfall. / Cast away from yourselves all the transgressions you have committed, and fashion for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Why should you die, O house of Israel? / For I take no pleasure in anyone’s death, declares the Lord GOD. So repent and live! Deuteronomy 30:1-3 “When all these things come upon you—the blessings and curses I have set before you—and you call them to mind in all the nations to which the LORD your God has banished you, / and when you and your children return to the LORD your God and obey His voice with all your heart and all your soul according to everything I am giving you today, / then He will restore you from captivity and have compassion on you and gather you from all the nations to which the LORD your God has scattered you. 2 Chronicles 30:6-9 At the command of the king, the couriers went throughout Israel and Judah with letters from the king and his officials, which read: “Children of Israel, return to the LORD, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so that He may return to those of you who remain, who have escaped the grasp of the kings of Assyria. / Do not be like your fathers and brothers who were unfaithful to the LORD, the God of their fathers, so that He made them an object of horror, as you can see. / Now do not stiffen your necks as your fathers did. Submit to the LORD and come to His sanctuary, which He has consecrated forever. Serve the LORD your God, so that His fierce anger will turn away from you. ... Jeremiah 4:1 “If you will return, O Israel, return to Me,” declares the LORD. “If you will remove your detestable idols from My sight and no longer waver, Malachi 3:7 Yet from the days of your fathers, you have turned away from My statutes and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you,” says the LORD of Hosts. “But you ask, ‘How can we return?’ Lamentations 3:40-41 Let us examine and test our ways, and turn back to the LORD. / Let us lift up our hearts and hands to God in heaven: Acts 3:19 Repent, then, and turn back, so that your sins may be wiped away, Matthew 3:2 and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near.” Luke 15:18-20 I will get up and go back to my father and say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. / I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants.”’ / So he got up and went to his father. But while he was still in the distance, his father saw him and was filled with compassion. He ran to his son, embraced him, and kissed him. James 4:8 Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. 1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Treasury of Scripture O Israel, return to the LORD your God; for you have fallen by your iniquity. return. Hosea 6:1 Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. Hosea 12:6 Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually. 1 Samuel 7:3,4 And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying, If ye do return unto the LORD with all your hearts, then put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare your hearts unto the LORD, and serve him only: and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines… thou. Hosea 13:9 O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me is thine help. Jeremiah 2:19 Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts. Lamentations 5:16 The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned! Jump to Previous Cause Downfall Evil-Doing Fall Fallen Iniquity Israel Sin Sins Stumbled TurnJump to Next Cause Downfall Evil-Doing Fall Fallen Iniquity Israel Sin Sins Stumbled TurnHosea 14 1. An exhortation to repentance.4. A promise of God's blessing. Return, O Israel The Hebrew word for "return" is "שׁוּב" (shuv), which carries the connotation of turning back or repenting. This is a call to repentance, a central theme in the prophetic literature. The use of "Israel" here is significant, as it refers to the Northern Kingdom, which had strayed from God's commandments. Historically, Israel had been involved in idolatry and alliances with foreign nations, which led them away from their covenant relationship with God. The call to "return" is both an invitation and a command, emphasizing God's desire for reconciliation and restoration. to the LORD your God for you have stumbled because of your iniquity (1) Thy.--Tenderness and inextinguishable love are suggested by the use of the pronoun. "Repentance (say the Rabbis) presses right up to the Eternal Throne." Verse 1. - The foregoing part of this book abounds with denunciations of punishment; this closing chapter superabounds with promises of pardon. Wave after wave of threatened wrath had rolled over Israel and come in unto their soul; now offer after offer of grace is made to them. O Israel, return unto the Lord thy God. The invitation to return implies previous departure, or distance, or wandering from God. The return to which they are invited is expressed, not by אֶל, to or towards, but by ער, quite up to, or as far as right home; the penitent, therefore, is not merely to turn his mind or his face toward God, but to turn his face and his feet home to God; he is not to go half the way and then turn aside, or part of the way and then turn back, but the whole way; in other words, his repentance is to be complete and entire, wanting nothing, according to the state merit of the psalmist, "It is good for me to draw near to God." As punishment was threatened in case of obstinate impenitence, so mercy is promised on condition of thorough repentance. For thou hast fallen by thine iniquity. A reason is here assigned for the preceding invitation; ka-shalta is properly "thou hast stumbled," "made a false step," fallen, yet so that recovery was among future possibilities. The same thought may be included in the fact that Jehovah continues to call his erring people by the honored and honorable name of Israel, and to acknowledge himself their God. Further, many and grievous were the calamities into which by their fall they had been precipitated; neither were any to blame but themselves - their iniquity or their folly was the cause, nor was there any one to lift them up, now that they lay prostrate, save Jehovah. After referring to the desolation of Samaria and the ruthless destruction of its inhabitants, as portrayed in the last verse of the previous chapter, Jerome adds, "All Israel is invited to repentance, that he who has been debilitated, or has fallen headlong in his iniquities, may return to the physician and recover health, or that he who had fallen headlong may begin to stand." The penitent is to direct his thoughts to Jehovah; to him as Center he is attracted, and in him he finds his place of rest; nor is there ether means of recovery or source of help. Thus Kimchi says, "For thou seest that through thine iniquity thou hast fallen, therefore it behooves thee to return to Jehovah, as nothing besides can raise thee from thy fall but thy return to him." "There is none," says Aben Ezra, "can raise thee from thy fall but the Eternal alone."Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Return,שׁ֚וּבָה (ū·ḇāh) Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular | third person feminine singular Strong's 7725: To turn back, in, to retreat, again O Israel, יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל (yiś·rā·’êl) Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 3478: Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc to עַ֖ד (‘aḏ) Preposition Strong's 5704: As far as, even to, up to, until, while the LORD יְהוָ֣ה (Yah·weh) Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel your God, אֱלֹהֶ֑יךָ (’ĕ·lō·he·ḵā) Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative for כִּ֥י (kî) Conjunction Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction you have stumbled כָשַׁ֖לְתָּ (ḵā·šal·tā) Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine singular Strong's 3782: To totter, waver, to falter, stumble, faint, fall by your iniquity. בַּעֲוֺנֶֽךָ׃ (ba·‘ă·wō·ne·ḵā) Preposition-b | Noun - common singular construct | second person masculine singular Strong's 5771: Iniquity, guilt, punishment for iniquity Links Hosea 14:1 NIVHosea 14:1 NLT Hosea 14:1 ESV Hosea 14:1 NASB Hosea 14:1 KJV Hosea 14:1 BibleApps.com Hosea 14:1 Biblia Paralela Hosea 14:1 Chinese Bible Hosea 14:1 French Bible Hosea 14:1 Catholic Bible OT Prophets: Hosea 14:1 Israel return to Yahweh your God (Ho Hs Hos.) |
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