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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
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, Hosea 14:1; and they are directed what to say to...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
O Israel, return unto the Lord thy God,.... From whom they had revolted and backslidden; whose worship and service they had forsaken, and whose word and ordinances they had slighted and neglected, and had served idols, and had given into idolatry, superstition, and will worship; and are here exhorted to turn again to the Lord by repentance and...
Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary - Matthew Henry
The strain of this chapter differs from that of the foregoing chapters. Those were generally made up of reproofs for sin and threatenings of wrath; but this is made up of exhortations to repentance and promises of mercy, and with these the prophet closes; for all the foregoing convictions and terrors he had spoken were designed to prepare and make...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity. Fallen into sorrow, fallen into shame, fallen into spiritual poverty, fallen into weakness of faith, fallen almost to destruction, though thou art Israel, and God loves thee, yet “thou hast fallen by thine iniquity;” and the only possible way in which thou canst obtain...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity. Come back, poor wanderer! My brother or my sister, if your heart has grown cold toward your Lord and Master, return to him this very hour. This message comes from God himself, through his servant the prophet, “O Israel, return unto the Lord thy God; for thou hast...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; Bless his name that he is still thy God, however much thou mayest have backslidden, thou hast not lost thy right to claim him as thy God, for he is thine eternally by a fixed entail; and because he is still thy God, let his everlasting kindness entice thee to come back to him.” Hos_14:1. For thou hast fallen...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity. Let anyone here, who has turned aside from the Lord, hear these tender pleading words, and then yield to him who utters them. God speaks, not to condemn, but to comfort. He would fain allure you back to him with his gracious words of love: “O Israel, return unto the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity. When we fall by sin, we must regain our comfort by going back to the place where we lost it: “Return unto the Lord thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.” Then, to help us return, God, through his servant, actually makes a prayer for us.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Take with you words, and turn to the Lord,.... Not mere words without the heart, but such as come from it, and express the true sense of it; words of confession, as the Targum; by which sin is acknowledged, and repentance declared, and forgiveness asked. Kimchi's note is a very good one; "he (that is, God) does not require of you, upon return,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say unto him,— He puts the words into our mouths; for he knows that, sometimes, we feel as if we cannot give proper expression to our repentance. We feel it, but we cannot utter it; so he puts the very form of the confession into his children’s mouths: “Take with you words, and turn to the Lord: say unto...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips. As if he feared that we could not find suitable words to speak to him, he puts the right words into our mouths. Our Heavenly Father is so anxious to bring back his children when they wander from him...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say unto him,- See, he puts the words into your mouth; as if he felt persuaded that you would say, “Lord, I cannot pray an acceptable prayer,” he makes one for you, so that you, who have backslidden the most, and have gone the farthest astray, may have no excuse: “Turn to the Lord: say unto him,” —...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Take with you words, and turn to the Lord: But the poor penitent cries, “Alas, Lord, I do not know what to say. So God puts in the sinner’s mouth the very words he is to utter. Hos_14:2. Say unto him. Take away all iniquity, — That is where the mischief lies, in your iniquity, your turning aside from the path of truth and iniquity. Say to the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Take with you words, and turn to the Lord: “What words am I to take?” asks the poor convinced sinner. “I cannot put words together.” Here are the words put into your mouth: — Hos_14:2. Say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips. Come with humble confession, come with sincere...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Ashur shall not save us,.... This is still a continuation of the words repenting and returning Israel are directed to make use of before the Lord, declaring they would not do any more as they had done; to Assyria, or the kings of Assyria, as the Targum, for help, and desire assistance, and expect deliverance and salvation from thence; see Hosea...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Asshur shall not save us;- When a man trusts to his God, he gets away from all other trust. Confidence in God is the death of all other confidences: “Asshur shall not save Hos_14:3. We will not ride upon horses: Which, somehow or other, were always the Israelites’ fear and trust. They always looked upon horsemen as the most powerful friends or...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will me say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy. If you expect the Lord to smile upon you, you must have done away with all your idols. You must put away all your false confidences, and those other sinful things in which you...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Asshur shall not save us; -Backslider, hast thou been putting thy trust anywhere but in God, hoping to find comfort in the world and in sin? Then make this confession: “Asshur shall not save us;” — Hos_14:3. We will not ride upon horses: These were the confidence of the Egyptians, and the Israelites vainly tried to imitate their powerful and rich...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For in thee the fatherless findeth mercy. I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him. Everlastingly turned away through the complete and satisfactory atonement of Jesus Christ.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Asshur shall not save us; — They had been accustomed to rely either upon Assyria or upon Egypt; and one of the first signs of their real repentance was that they had given up their false dependences. So, sinner, you must give up your self-righteousness, your ceremonialism, anything and everything in which you have trusted in place of trusting in...