Oseas 14:1-6

1 Conviértete, oh Israel, al SEÑOR tu Dios, porque por tu pecado has caído.

2 Tomad con vosotros palabras, y convertíos al SEÑOR, y decidle: Quita toda iniquidad, y aceptanos con gracia, y daremos los becerros de nuestros labios.

3 No nos librará Assur; no subiremos sobre caballos, ni nunca más diremos a la obra de nuestras manos: Dioses nuestros; porque en ti el huérfano alcanzará misericordia.

4 Yo medicinaré su rebelión, los amaré de voluntad; porque mi furor se apartó de ellos.

5 Yo seré a Israel como rocío; él florecerá como lirio, y extenderá sus raíces como el Líbano.

6 Se extenderán sus ramos, y será su gloria como la de la oliva, y olerá como el Líbano.

Oseas 14:1-6 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO HOSEA 14

This chapter concludes the book, with gracious promises to repenting sinners, to returning backsliders. It begins with an exhortation to Israel to return to the Lord, seeing he was their God, and they had fallen by sin from prosperity into adversity, temporal and spiritual, Ho 14:1; and they are directed what to say to the Lord, upon their return to him, both by way of petition, and of promise and of resolution how to behave for the future, encouraged by his grace and mercy, Ho 14:2,3; and they are told what the Lord, by way of answer, would say to them, Ho 14:4; and what he would be to them; and what blessings of grace he would bestow on them; and in what flourishing and fruitful circumstances they should be, Ho 14:5-8; and the chapter ends with a character of such that attend to and understand those things; and with a recommendation of the ways of the Lord, which are differently regarded by men, Ho 14:9.