Hosea 14:4. I will heal their backsliding,-
He can do it; he will do it, he evidently rejoices to do it. He soliloquizes with himself, as though it were a very pleasant thought to him: "I will heal their backsliding,"-
Hosea 14:4. I will love them freely:
"Though there is nothing lovely in them, though they deserve my wrath,-though, according to their own confession, they have gone after false gods, I will love them freely."
Hosea 14:4. For mine anger is turned away from him.
"I have fully forgiven them, and I have caused my great wrath to pass away from them." Now, dear child of God, you to whom I spoke just now, who have fallen into a dull, dead, dreary sort of state, are you not encouraged to return unto the Lord when he thus declares that he will heal your backsliding, and love you freely? You shall have your joy-days back again; you shall have your old love restored; you shall have your old delight renewed; you shall again dance before the Lord for very joy of spirit.
Hosea 14:4. I will heal their backsliding,-
He can do it; he will do it, he evidently rejoices to do it. He soliloquizes with himself, as though it were a very pleasant thought to him: "I will heal their backsliding,"-
Hosea 14:4. I will love them freely:
"Though there is nothing lovely in them, though they deserve my wrath,-though, according to their own confession, they have gone after false gods, I will love them freely."
Hosea 14:4. For mine anger is turned away from him.
"I have fully forgiven them, and I have caused my great wrath to pass away from them." Now, dear child of God, you to whom I spoke just now, who have fallen into a dull, dead, dreary sort of state, are you not encouraged to return unto the Lord when he thus declares that he will heal your backsliding, and love you freely? You shall have your joy-days back again; you shall have your old love restored; you shall have your old delight renewed; you shall again dance before the Lord for very joy of spirit.