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Early morning on a slope of the Lebanon range: great old cedars with broad layered branches, wet and dark with dew, mist in the valley below, a few white wild lilies in the grass at their feet.

Return, O Israel

Hosea 14

It’s never too late to come home. Do you know what to say?

9 verses≈ 3 minBSB

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Where we are

  1. 1–3Hosea’s marriageA wife, three names, and love bought back
  2. 4–6:3The LORD’s caseNo knowledge of God in the land
  3. 6–11Sowing the windMist, kings, calves, and a love that won’t let go
  4. 11–14Return, O IsraelJacob’s story, death undone, and the last callChapter 14

A Call to Repentance

Hosea

Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled by your iniquity.

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Hosea

Bring 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.

Hosea
Hosea

Assyria will not save us,

nor will we ride on horses.

We will never again say, ‘Our gods!’

to the work of our own hands.

Hosea

For in You the fatherless find compassion.”

Question

Quick question

Hosea 14:2 tells Israel what to bring when it comes home. Read it again before you answer.

What does Israel bring when it returns (14:2)?

A Promise of God’s Blessing

God

I will heal their apostasy;

I will freely love them,

for My anger has turned away from them.

Hosea 14:4

God
God
A single tall evergreen tree standing green and full on a dry brown hillside at the end of summer, everything around it parched.

O Ephraim, what have I to do

anymore with idols?

It is I who answer and watch over him.

I am like a flourishing cypress;

your fruit comes from Me.

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Narrated by Bob Souer · BSB audio, public domain

Reflect

Reflect

Hosea 14:2 gives Israel words to say: “Take away all our iniquity and receive us graciously.” Write your own. What do you need to bring to God, and what do you want Him to take away?

Hosea

Whoever is wise, let him understand these things;

whoever is discerning, let him know them.

For the ways of the LORD are right,

and the righteous walk in them

but the rebellious stumble in them.

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A verse to carry with you

I will heal their apostasy; I will freely love them, for My anger has turned away from them.

Hosea 14:4

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