Hosea 14章 ESV | 微讀聖經

A Plea to Return to the Lord

114:1 ch. 6:1; 12:6; [ch. 3:5] Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God,

for 14:1 [ch. 13:9]you have stumbled because of your iniquity.

2Take with you words

and return to the Lord;

say to him,

“Take away all iniquity;

accept 14:2 [ch. 5:15] what is good,

and we will pay with bulls

14:2 Heb. 13:15; [Ps. 50:13, 14; 69:30, 31]the vows14:2 Septuagint, Syriac pay the fruit of our lips.

314:3 ch. 5:13Assyria shall not save us;

14:3 [Isa. 30:16; 31:1] we will not ride on horses;

and 14:3 [ver. 8] we will say no more, ‘Our God,’

to the work of our hands.

14:3 See Ps. 10:14In you the orphan finds mercy.”

4I 14:4 Jer. 3:22; [ch. 6:1] will heal their apostasy;

14:4 [ch. 11:1]I will love them freely,

for my anger has turned from them.

514:5 [ch. 6:3] I will be like the dew to Israel;

14:5 Isa. 27:6he shall blossom like the lily;

he shall take root like the trees 14:5 [Ps. 92:12; Isa. 35:2]of Lebanon;

6his shoots shall spread out;

his beauty shall be 14:6 Ps. 52:8like the olive,

and his fragrance like Lebanon.

7They shall return and 14:7 Ps. 91:1dwell beneath my14:7 Hebrew his shadow;

they shall flourish like the grain;

they shall blossom like the vine;

their fame shall be like the wine of Lebanon.

8O 14:8 [ver. 3; Isa. 30:22] Ephraim, what have I to do with idols?

It is I who answer and look after you.14:8 Hebrew him

I am like an evergreen cypress;

14:8 [ch. 2:8, 23; John 15:4, 5]from me comes your fruit.

914:9 Ps. 107:43; Jer. 9:12; Dan. 12:10; John 8:47; 18:37Whoever is wise, let him understand these things;

whoever is discerning, let him know them;

for the ways of the Lord are right,

and 14:9 [Prov. 10:29; Luke 2:34; 2 Cor. 2:16]the upright walk in them,

14:9 [Prov. 10:29; Luke 2:34; 2 Cor. 2:16]but transgressors stumble in them.

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