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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 the Lord, upon their return to him, both by way of...
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, neither gold nor silver, nor burnt offerings, but...
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 way for these. He wounds that he may heal. The...
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 him,”— Hos_14:2. Take away all iniquity, and...
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 that he actually makes the prayer with which they...
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,” — Hos_14:2. Take away all iniquity, and receive us...
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 Lord, “I do not want to keep any of my iniquity, I...
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 repentance, come with earnest supplication, come trusting to...