Hosea 14:1
New International Version
Return, Israel, to the LORD your God. Your sins have been your downfall!

New Living Translation
Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for your sins have brought you down.

English Standard Version
Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled because of your iniquity.

Berean Standard Bible
Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled by your iniquity.

King James Bible
O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.

New King James Version
O Israel, return to the LORD your God, For you have stumbled because of your iniquity;

New American Standard Bible
Return, Israel, to the LORD your God, For you have stumbled because of your wrongdoing.

NASB 1995
Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, For you have stumbled because of your iniquity.

NASB 1977
Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, For you have stumbled because of your iniquity.

Legacy Standard Bible
Return, O Israel, to Yahweh your God, For you have stumbled in your iniquity.

Amplified Bible
O Israel, return [in repentance] to the LORD your God, For you have stumbled and fallen [visited by tragedy], because of your sin.

Christian Standard Bible
Israel, return to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled in your iniquity.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Israel, return to Yahweh your God, for you have stumbled in your sin.

American Standard Version
O Israel, return unto Jehovah thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Turn, Israel, to LORD JEHOVAH your God, because you have been subverted by your evil

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Return, O Israel, to the Lord thy God; for the people have fallen through thine iniquities.

Contemporary English Version
Israel, return! Come back to the LORD, your God. Sin has made you fall.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Return, O Israel, to the Lord thy God: for thou hast fallen down by thy iniquity.

English Revised Version
O ISRAEL, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Israel, return to the LORD your God. You have stumbled because of your sins.

Good News Translation
Return to the LORD your God, people of Israel. Your sin has made you stumble and fall.

International Standard Version
"Return, Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have fallen due to your own iniquity.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Return, O Israel, unto the LORD thy God; For thou hast stumbled in thine iniquity.

Literal Standard Version
“Turn back, O Israel, to your God YHWH, | For you have stumbled by your iniquity.

Majority Standard Bible
Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled by your iniquity.

New American Bible
Return, Israel, to the LORD, your God; you have stumbled because of your iniquity.

NET Bible
Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for your sin has been your downfall!

New Revised Standard Version
Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled because of your iniquity.

New Heart English Bible
Israel, return to the LORD your God; for you have fallen because of your sin.

Webster's Bible Translation
O Israel, return to the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thy iniquity.

World English Bible
Israel, return to Yahweh your God; for you have fallen because of your sin.

Young's Literal Translation
Turn back, O Israel, unto Jehovah thy God, For thou hast stumbled by thine iniquity.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
An Exhortation to Repentance
1Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled by your iniquity. 2Bring your confessions and return to the LORD. Say to Him: “Take away all our iniquity and receive us graciously, that we may present the fruit of our lips.…

Cross References
Isaiah 19:22
And the LORD will strike Egypt with a plague; He will strike them but heal them. They will turn to the LORD, and He will hear their prayers and heal them.

Ezekiel 33:11
Say to them: 'As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked should turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel?'

Ezekiel 33:14
But if I tell the wicked man, 'You will surely die,' and he turns from his sin and does what is just and right--

Hosea 4:8
They feed on the sins of My people and set their hearts on iniquity.

Hosea 5:5
Israel's arrogance testifies against them; Israel and Ephraim stumble in their iniquity; even Judah stumbles with them.

Hosea 6:1
Come, let us return to the LORD. For He has torn us to pieces, but He will heal us; He has wounded us, but He will bind up our wounds.

Hosea 9:7
The days of punishment have come; the days of retribution have arrived--let Israel know it. The prophet is called a fool, and the inspired man insane, because of the greatness of your iniquity and hostility.


Treasury of Scripture

O Israel, return to the LORD your God; for you have fallen by your iniquity.

return.

Hosea 6:1
Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.

Hosea 12:6
Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually.

1 Samuel 7:3,4
And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying, If ye do return unto the LORD with all your hearts, then put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare your hearts unto the LORD, and serve him only: and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines…

thou.

Hosea 13:9
O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me is thine help.

Jeremiah 2:19
Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.

Lamentations 5:16
The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!

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Hosea 14
1. An exhortation to repentance.
4. A promise of God's blessing.














XIV.

(1) Thy.--Tenderness and inextinguishable love are suggested by the use of the pronoun. "Repentance (say the Rabbis) presses right up to the Eternal Throne."

Verse 1. - The foregoing part of this book abounds with denunciations of punishment; this closing chapter superabounds with promises of pardon. Wave after wave of threatened wrath had rolled over Israel and come in unto their soul; now offer after offer of grace is made to them. O Israel, return unto the Lord thy God. The invitation to return implies previous departure, or distance, or wandering from God. The return to which they are invited is expressed, not by אֶל, to or towards, but by ער, quite up to, or as far as right home; the penitent, therefore, is not merely to turn his mind or his face toward God, but to turn his face and his feet home to God; he is not to go half the way and then turn aside, or part of the way and then turn back, but the whole way; in other words, his repentance is to be complete and entire, wanting nothing, according to the state merit of the psalmist, "It is good for me to draw near to God." As punishment was threatened in case of obstinate impenitence, so mercy is promised on condition of thorough repentance. For thou hast fallen by thine iniquity. A reason is here assigned for the preceding invitation; ka-shalta is properly "thou hast stumbled," "made a false step," fallen, yet so that recovery was among future possibilities. The same thought may be included in the fact that Jehovah continues to call his erring people by the honored and honorable name of Israel, and to acknowledge himself their God. Further, many and grievous were the calamities into which by their fall they had been precipitated; neither were any to blame but themselves - their iniquity or their folly was the cause, nor was there any one to lift them up, now that they lay prostrate, save Jehovah. After referring to the desolation of Samaria and the ruthless destruction of its inhabitants, as portrayed in the last verse of the previous chapter, Jerome adds, "All Israel is invited to repentance, that he who has been debilitated, or has fallen headlong in his iniquities, may return to the physician and recover health, or that he who had fallen headlong may begin to stand." The penitent is to direct his thoughts to Jehovah; to him as Center he is attracted, and in him he finds his place of rest; nor is there ether means of recovery or source of help. Thus Kimchi says, "For thou seest that through thine iniquity thou hast fallen, therefore it behooves thee to return to Jehovah, as nothing besides can raise thee from thy fall but thy return to him." "There is none," says Aben Ezra, "can raise thee from thy fall but the Eternal alone."

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Return,
שׁ֚וּבָה (ū·ḇāh)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular | third person feminine singular
Strong's 7725: To turn back, in, to retreat, again

O Israel,
יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל (yiś·rā·’êl)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3478: Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc

to
עַ֖ד (‘aḏ)
Preposition
Strong's 5704: As far as, even to, up to, until, while

the LORD
יְהוָ֣ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

your God,
אֱלֹהֶ֑יךָ (’ĕ·lō·he·ḵā)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

for
כִּ֥י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

you have stumbled
כָשַׁ֖לְתָּ (ḵā·šal·tā)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 3782: To totter, waver, to falter, stumble, faint, fall

by your iniquity.
בַּעֲוֺנֶֽךָ׃ (ba·‘ă·wō·ne·ḵā)
Preposition-b | Noun - common singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 5771: Iniquity, guilt, punishment for iniquity


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