Hosea 14:1

New Century Version

Israel, return to the Lord your God, because your sins have made you fall.

Cross References

2 Kings 8:12

Hazael asked, “Why are you crying, master?” Elisha answered, “Because I know what evil you will do to the Israelites. You will burn their strong, walled cities with fire and kill their young men with swords. You will throw their babies to the ground and split open their pregnant women.”

Isaiah 19:22

The Lord will punish the Egyptians, but then he will heal them. They will come back to the Lord, and he will listen to their prayers and heal them.

Jeremiah 2:19

Your evil will bring punishment to you, and the wrong you have done will teach you a lesson. Think about it and understand that it is a terrible evil to turn away from the Lord your God. It is wrong not to fear me,” says the Lord God All-Powerful.

Jeremiah 4:1

“If you will return, Israel, then return to me,” says the Lord. “If you will throw away your idols that I hate, then don’t wander away from me.

Lamentations 5:16

The crown has fallen from our head. How terrible it is because we sinned.

Ezekiel 16:46

Your older sister is Samaria, who lived north of you with her daughters; your younger sister is Sodom, who lived south of you with her daughters.

Ezekiel 33:11

Say to them: ‘The Lord God says: As surely as I live, I do not want any who are wicked to die. I want them to stop doing evil and live. Stop! Stop your wicked ways! You don’t want to die, do you, people of Israel?’

Ezekiel 33:14

Or, if I say to the wicked people, ‘You will surely die,’ they may stop sinning and do what is right and honest.

Hosea 10:12

I said, ‘Plant goodness, harvest the fruit of loyalty, plow the new ground of knowledge. Look for the Lord until he comes and pours goodness on you like water.’

Hosea 12:6

You must return to your God; love him, do what is just, and always trust in him as your God.

Hosea 12:8

Israel said, “I am rich! I am someone with power!” All their money will do them no good because of the sins they have done.

Hosea 13:9

“Israel, I will destroy you. Who will be your helper then?

Hosea 4:8

Since the priests live off the sin offerings of the people, they want the people to sin more and more.

Hosea 5:5

Israel’s pride testifies against them. The people of Israel will stumble because of their sin, and the people of Judah will stumble with them.

Hosea 6:1

“Come, let’s go back to the Lord. He has hurt us, but he will heal us. He has wounded us, but he will bandage our wounds.

Hosea 9:13

I have seen Israel, like Tyre, given a pleasant place. But the people of Israel will soon bring out their children to be killed.”

Hosea 9:7

The time of punishment has come, the time to pay for sins. Let Israel know this: You think the prophet is a fool, and you say the spiritual person is crazy. You have sinned very much, and your hatred is great.

Amos 1:13

This is what the Lord says: “For the many crimes of Ammon, I will punish them. They ripped open the pregnant women in Gilead so they could take over that land and make their own country larger.