Hosea 14:1

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God, for you have stumbled because of your iniquity.

Cross References

2 Kings 8:12

Hazael asked, “Why does my lord weep?” He answered, “Because I know the evil that you will do to the people of Israel; you will set their fortresses on fire; you will kill their young men with the sword, dash in pieces their little ones, and rip up their pregnant women.”

Isaiah 19:22

The Lord will strike Egypt, striking but healing, so that they will return to the Lord, and he will listen to their supplications and heal them.

Jeremiah 2:19

Your wickedness will punish you, and your faithlessness will convict you. Know and see that it is evil and bitter for you to forsake the Lord your God; the fear of me is not in you, says the Lord God of hosts.

Jeremiah 4:1

If you return, O Israel, says the Lord, if you return to me, if you remove your abominations from my presence and do not waver,

Lamentations 5:16

The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned!

Ezekiel 16:46

Your big sister is Samaria, who lived with her daughters to the north of you; your little sister, who lived to the south of you, is Sodom with her daughters.

Ezekiel 33:11

Say to them: As I live, says the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked but that the wicked turn from their ways and live; turn back, turn back from your evil ways, for why will you die, O house of Israel?

Ezekiel 33:14

Again, though I say to the wicked, “You shall surely die,” yet if they turn from their sin and do what is lawful and right—

Hosea 10:12

Sow for yourselves righteousness; reap steadfast love; break up your fallow ground, for it is time to seek the Lord, that he may come and rain righteousness upon you.

Hosea 12:6

But as for you, return to your God; hold fast to love and justice, and wait continually for your God.

Hosea 12:8

Ephraim has said, “Ah, I am rich; I have gained wealth for myself; in all of my gain no offense has been found in me that would be sin.”

Hosea 13:9

I will destroy you, O Israel; who can help you?

Hosea 4:8

They feed on the sin of my people; they are greedy for their iniquity.

Hosea 5:5

Israel’s pride testifies against him; Ephraim stumbles in his guilt; Judah also stumbles with them.

Hosea 6:1

“Come, let us return to the Lord, for it is he who has torn, and he will heal us; he has struck down, and he will bind us up.

Hosea 9:13

Once I saw Ephraim as a young palm planted in a lovely meadow, but now Ephraim must lead out his children for slaughter.

Hosea 9:7

The days of punishment have come; the days of recompense have come. Israel will cry out, “The prophet is a fool; the man of the spirit is mad!” Because of your great iniquity, your hostility is great.

Amos 1:13

Thus says the Lord: For three transgressions of the Ammonites, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have ripped open pregnant women in Gilead in order to enlarge their territory.