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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 be as the dew unto Israel,.... To spiritual Israel, to those that return to the Lord, take with them words, and pray unto him, whose backslidings are healed, and they are freely loved; otherwise it is said of apostate Israel or Ephraim, that they were "smitten, [and] their root dried up, [and bore] no fruit", Hosea 9:16. These words, and the whole, context, respect future times, as Kimchi...
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 be as the dew unto Israel: “When they come back to me, I will refresh them,—softly, sweetly, efficaciously, abundantly, mysteriously, even as the dew refreshes the thirsty earth.” Hos_14:5. He shall grow as the lily,- Your souls shall suddenly spring up. As the daffodil-lily springs up almost in a night, and its golden bells speedily appear, so you, who seem so dead, shall grow up adorned...
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
He shall grow as the lily, — That is, upwards, bearing his flowers as near heaven as he can; not groveling as he once did. He shall grow rapidly, as the daffodil lily does, which seems to start up, in the East, after a shower of rain, and come to maturity at once. Lord, grant that we may bring forth lilies of grace all of a sudden! May there be in us the beauty of holy Christian love which shall...
Charles H. Spurgeon
I will be as the dew unto Israel:- The dew is God’s gift, and so is grace; the dew falls silently, yet copiously, and bedews both the leaf and the root sufficiently. “I will be as the dew unto Israel,” is a promise to the man of faith, the man of prayer, the man who can endure trial: “I will be as the dew unto Israel;” — Hos_14:5. He shall grow as the lily, It is “the daffodil” in the original,...
Charles H. Spurgeon
I will be as the dew unto Israel: — “Not as first, not as tempest; but in gentle yet effectual grace, I will visit them. I will be as the dew unto Israel:” — Hos_14:5. He shall grow as the lily, “He shall be as beautiful and fair as the lily, though just now he was black as night.” Hos_14:5. And cast forth his roots as Lebanon. “He shall be as stable as he is beautiful. Like old Lebanon, the...
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.”
Charles H. Spurgeon
He shall grow as the lily, Quickly, beautifully, — Hos_14:5. And cast forth his roots as Lebanon. He shall be as permanent as he is fair, like a cedar as well as like a lily.