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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
I will heal their backslidings,.... This and what follows is the Lord's answer to the above prayer; and this clause particularly is an answer to that petition, "take away all iniquity", Hosea 14:2; sins are diseases, natural and hereditary, nauseous and loathsome, mortal, and incurable but by the grace of God, and blood of Christ; backslidings are relapses, which are dangerous things; Christ is...
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
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,”— Hos_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...
Charles H. Spurgeon
I will heal their backsliding, — “Nobody else can do it, but I can, and I will. I will not chide them any more, I will not keep them at a distance from me as unworthy to draw near to me; but ‘I will heal their backslidings,’” — Hos_14:4. I will love them freely; — That is a grand sentence. God could not love us anyhow else, for what price could you and I bring with which to purchase his love? And...
Charles H. Spurgeon
For mine anger is turned away from him. I will be as the dew unto Israel: — You know that, in the East the dew is a great fertilizer, even more so than it is here; When a plot of ground is all browned by the hot sun, the dew makes it green and fruitful again. So God says, “I will be as the dew unto Israel:” —
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.
Charles H. Spurgeon
I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: — Listen to the heavenly music: “I will.” “I will.” When God says, “I will,” you may depend upon it that he will do what he says he will. If you or I say, “I will,” it must be with the proviso, “If it is God’s will, I will do so-and- so,” but God is the almighty king whose least word is a sovereign mandate: “I will heal their backsliding: I...
Charles H. Spurgeon
I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him. I will be as the dew unto Israel: “Swiftly and mysteriously will I come and refresh him.”