Hosea Chapter 14 verse 4 Holy Bible

ASV Hosea 14:4

I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely; for mine anger is turned away from him.
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BBE Hosea 14:4

Assyria will not be our salvation; we will not go on horses; we will not again say to the work of our hands, You are our gods; for in you there is mercy for the child who has no father.
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DARBY Hosea 14:4

I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely; for mine anger is turned away from him.
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KJV Hosea 14:4

I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.
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WBT Hosea 14:4


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WEB Hosea 14:4

"I will heal their waywardness. I will love them freely; For my anger is turned away from him.
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YLT Hosea 14:4

I heal their backsliding, I love them freely, For turned back hath Mine anger from him.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerses 4-7. - I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him. The penitential prayer put in the mouth of the people receives in this verse a gracious response; words of contrite confession are echoed back in accents of compassion and consolation. When thus penitent and prayerful they returned to the Lord, he promises them favor as well as forgiveness, so as to heal the moral malady under which they had long labored, remedy the evil effects of their apostasy, and withhold the stripes he was going to inflict. Meshubhatham means (1) their turning away from God and all included therein - defection, rebellion, idolatry, and other sins. The disease would be healed, and its consequences averted. (2) Some, however, understand the word, in a good sense, to mean "conversion ' or "the converted," the abstract being put for the concrete; the blessing is thus promised them when they turned or returned to God. Thus the Syriac version. (3) The LXX. again, connecting meshubhah with yashav, to sit or dwell, render it by κατοικίαν, that is," I will heal their dwelling." There is little doubt that . . .

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(4) Heal . . . Love.--If the foregoing be the offering of penitent lips, then the majestic reply of Jehovah is full of superlative grace.