Hosea 14 (NET)

Hosea 14:1¹Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God, for your sin has been your downfall!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Hos 6:1Joel 2:12-13Hos 12:62 Chr 30:6-9Zech 1:3-4Acts 26:18-20Isa 55:6-7Jer 4:1Hos 13:9Jer 3:12-14

Hosea 14:2²Return to the Lord and repent! Say to him: “Completely forgive our iniquity; accept our penitential prayer, that we may offer the praise of our lips as sacrificial bulls.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 13:15Ps 51:2-10Job 34:31-32Job 7:21Mic 7:18-191 John 3:5Ps 69:30-312 Sam 12:13Joel 2:171 Pet 2:5

Hosea 14:3³Assyria cannot save us; we will not ride warhorses. We will never again say, ‘Our gods,’ to what our own hands have made. For only you will show compassion to Orphan Israel!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 10:14Ps 68:5Hos 14:8Hos 2:17Hos 5:13Isa 30:16Isa 31:1John 14:18Ps 33:172 Chr 16:7

Hosea 14:4⁴“I will heal their waywardness and love them freely, for my anger will turn away from them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 57:18Jer 3:22Isa 12:1Eph 2:4-9Zeph 3:17Hos 6:12 Cor 5:19-21Exod 15:26Jer 14:7Jer 17:14

Hosea 14:5⁵I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like a lily, he will send down his roots like a cedar of Lebanon.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 35:2Eph 3:17Isa 27:6Matt 6:28Isa 26:19Isa 44:3Job 29:19Mic 5:72 Kgs 19:302 Sam 23:4

Hosea 14:6⁶His young shoots will grow; his splendor will be like an olive tree, his fragrance like a cedar of Lebanon.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 52:8Phil 4:18Ps 128:32 Cor 2:14-15Dan 4:10-15Ezek 17:5-8Ezek 31:3-10Gen 27:27Jer 11:16John 15:1

Hosea 14:7⁷People will reside again in his shade; they will plant and harvest grain in abundance. They will blossom like a vine, and his fame will be like the wine from Lebanon.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 91:1John 11:251 Cor 15:36-38Ezek 17:23Hos 14:5Hos 2:22Hos 6:2Isa 32:1-2Isa 61:11Ps 138:7

Hosea 14:8⁸O Ephraim, I do not want to have anything to do with idols anymore! I will answer him and care for him. I am like a luxuriant cypress tree; your fruitfulness comes from me!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 34:32Jas 1:171 Pet 4:3-4Isa 41:19Isa 55:13Luke 15:20Phil 2:131 Pet 1:14-161 Thess 1:9Acts 19:18-20

Hosea 14:9⁹Who is wise? Let him discern these things! Who is discerning? Let him understand them! For the ways of the Lord are right; the godly walk in them, but in them the rebellious stumble.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 10:29Ps 107:43John 8:47Dan 12:10Prov 1:5-6Ps 19:7-8Deut 32:4Isa 26:7Jer 9:12Zeph 3:5