# Hosea 14 📖
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> [[#📜 Scripture Text (NET)]]
[[#📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary]]
[[#🧠 Chapter Summary]]
[[#🔎 Key Principles / 🛟 Life Application]]
[[#✍️ Key Verses to Remember]]
> [[#🤔 Interesting Facts]]
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[[#🙏 Devotional Reflection]]
## 📜 Scripture Text (NET)
(The NET Bible: New English Translation. Biblical Studies Press, 2005)
### Prophetic Call to Genuine Repentance
[[#Verse 01.]] Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God,
for your sin has been your downfall!
[[#Verse 02.]] Return to the Lord and repent!
Say to him: “Completely forgive our iniquity;
accept our penitential prayer,
that we may offer the praise of our lips as sacrificial bulls.
[[#Verse 03.]] Assyria cannot save us;
we will not ride warhorses.
We will never again say, ‘Our gods,’
to what our own hands have made.
For only you will show compassion to Orphan Israel!”
### Divine Promise to Relent from Judgment and to Restore Blessings
[[#Verse 04.]] “I will heal their waywardness
and love them freely,
for my anger will turn away from them.
[[#Verse 05.]] I will be like the dew to Israel;
he will blossom like a lily,
he will send down his roots like a cedar of Lebanon.
[[#Verse 06.]] His young shoots will grow;
his splendor will be like an olive tree,
his fragrance like a cedar of Lebanon.
[[#Verse 07.]] People will reside again in his shade;
they will plant and harvest grain in abundance.
They will blossom like a vine,
and his fame will be like the wine from Lebanon.
[[#Verse 08.]] O Ephraim, I do not want to have anything to do with idols anymore!
I will answer him and care for him.
I am like a luxuriant cypress tree;
your fruitfulness comes from me!”
### Concluding Exhortation
[[#Verse 09.]] Who is wise?
Let him discern these things!
Who is discerning?
Let him understand them!
For the ways of the Lord are right;
the godly walk in them,
but in them the rebellious stumble.
## ==📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary==
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## 🤔 Interesting Facts / Historical and Cultural Insights
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## 🧠 Chapter Summary
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## 🔎 Key Principles / 🛟 Life Application
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#### Today, I can apply this chapter by:
- ✅ Application 1
- ✅ Application 2
Make these very practical:
- "Trust God's timing in an uncertain situation."
- "Speak truth even when it’s unpopular."
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- What do we learn about God here?
- What do we learn about people?
- Are there promises, commands, or warnings?
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## ✍️ Key Verses to Remember
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## 🔗 Related Passages/Cross Reference
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- John 1:1 and Genesis 1
- Romans 5 and Genesis 3
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## 🙏 Devotional Reflection
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