Hosea 14:1

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“Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled by your iniquity.”

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“Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled by your iniquity.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
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“O Israel, return unto the Lord thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.”

King James Version · Public Domain
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“O Israel, return unto Jehovah thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
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“Turn back, O Israel, unto Jehovah thy God, For thou hast stumbled by thine iniquity.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Hosea 14:1 — 19 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. 1 Samuel 7:3Then Samuel said to all the house of Israel, “If you are returning to the LORD with all your hearts, then rid yourselves of the foreign gods and Ashtoreths among you, prepare your hearts for the LORD, and serve Him only. And He will deliver you from the hand of the Philistines.”
  2. 2 Kings 8:12“Why is my lord weeping?” asked Hazael. “Because I know the evil you will do to the Israelites,” Elisha replied. “You will set fire to their fortresses, kill their young men with the sword, dash their little ones to pieces, and rip open their pregnant women.”
  3. 2 Chronicles 30:6So the couriers went throughout Israel and Judah with letters from the king and his officials, which read: “Children of Israel, return to the LORD, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so that He may return to those of you who remain, who have escaped the grasp of the kings of Assyria.
  4. Isaiah 55:6Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.
  5. Jeremiah 2:19Your own evil will discipline you; your own apostasies will reprimand you. Consider and realize how evil and bitter it is for you to forsake the LORD your God and to have no fear of Me,” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.
  6. Jeremiah 3:12Go, proclaim this message toward the north: ‘Return, O faithless Israel,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will no longer look on you with anger, for I am merciful,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will not be angry forever.
  7. Jeremiah 4:1“If you will return, O Israel, return to Me,” declares the LORD. “If you will remove your detestable idols from My sight and no longer waver,
  8. Lamentations 5:16The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!
  9. Ezekiel 16:46Your older sister was Samaria, who lived with her daughters to your north; and your younger sister was Sodom, who lived with her daughters to your south.
  10. Ezekiel 28:14You were anointed as a guardian cherub, for I had ordained you. You were on the holy mountain of God; you walked among the fiery stones.
  11. Hosea 5:5Israel’s arrogance testifies against them; Israel and Ephraim stumble in their iniquity; even Judah stumbles with them.
  12. Hosea 6:1Come, 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.
  13. Hosea 9:13I have seen Ephraim, like Tyre, planted in a meadow. But Ephraim will bring out his children for slaughter.
  14. Hosea 12:6But you must return to your God, maintaining love and justice, and always waiting on your God.
  15. Hosea 13:9You are destroyed, O Israel, because you are against Me— against your helper.
  16. Joel 2:12“Yet even now,” declares the LORD, “return to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.”
  17. Amos 1:13This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of the Ammonites, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead in order to enlarge their territory.
  18. Zechariah 1:3So tell the people that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Return to Me, declares the LORD of Hosts, and I will return to you, says the LORD of Hosts.’
  19. Acts 26:18to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those sanctified by faith in Me.’

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