Hosea 14:1 Cross References - Rotherham

¹ Return thou, O Israel, unto Yahweh thy God,––for thou hast stumbled by thine iniquity.

³ And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying, If, with all your heart, ye are returning unto Yahweh, then put away the gods of the foreigner out of your midst, and the Ashtoreths––and firmly set your heart towards Yahweh, and serve him, alone, that he may deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines. ⁴ So the sons of Israel put away the Baals, and the Ashtoreths,––and served Yahweh, alone.

⁶ The runners, therefore, went with letters from the hand of the king and his rulers, throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying,––Ye sons of Israel, return ye unto Yahweh, God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, and he will return unto the remnant, that which is left to you, out of the hand of the kings of Assyria. ⁷ And be not ye like your fathers, or like your brethren, who acted unfaithfully with Yahweh, God of your fathers,––who therefore delivered them up for an astonishment, as, ye yourselves, can see. ⁸ Now, do not stiffen your neck, like your fathers,––stretch forth the hand unto Yahweh, and enter into his sanctuary which he hath hallowed unto times age–abiding, and serve Yahweh your God, that he may turn from you the glow of his anger. ⁹ For, by your returning unto Yahweh, your brethren and your children, shall find compassion before their captors, so as to return unto this land. For, gracious and compassionate, is Yahweh your God, and will not turn away his face from you, if ye will return unto him.

⁶ Seek Yahweh, while he may be found,––Call ye upon him, while he is near: ⁷ Let the lawless forsake, his way, And the man of iniquity, his thoughts,––And let him return unto Yahweh, That he may have compassion upon him, And unto our God, For he will abundantly pardon.

¹⁹ Let thy wickedness correct, thee, And, thine apostasies, rebuke thee, Know therefore and see, That it is a wicked thing and a bitter, that thou shouldest have forsaken Yahweh thy God,––And that the dread of me, should not have pertained to thee, Declareth My Lord, Yahweh of hosts.

¹² Go, and proclaim these words, towards the North, and say––Return! thou apostate, Israel, Urgeth Yahweh, I will not lower my face against you,––for, full of lovingkindness, I am, Declareth Yahweh, I will not maintain [mine anger] unto times age–abiding. ¹³ Only, acknowledge thine iniquity, that, against Yahweh thy God, hast thou transgressed,––and hast gone hither and thither unto foreigners under every green tree, and, unto my voice, ye have not hearkened, Declareth Yahweh. ¹⁴ Return, ye apostate sons, Urgeth Yahweh, for, I, am become your husband,––therefore will I take you, one of a city, and two of a family, and will bring you to Zion;

¹ If thou wilt return, O Israel, Declareth Yahweh, Unto me, mayst thou return,––And, if thou wilt remove thine abominations from before me, Then shalt thou not become a wanderer.

¹⁶ Fallen is the crown of our head. Surely woe to us, for we have sinned.

¹⁴ Thou, wast the anointed cherub that covered,––When I appointed thee, in the holy mount of God, thou wast, Amid stones of fire, thou didst walk to and fro: ¹⁵ Complete, wast thou, in thy ways, from the day thou wast created,––Until perversity was found, in thee. ¹⁶ By the abundance of thy traffic, they filled thy midst with violence, And thou didst sin,––So I cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God, And destroyed thee, O covering cherub, from amid the stones of fire:

⁵ Therefore will the Excellency of Israel, answer, to his face,––and, Israel and Ephraim, shall stumble in their iniquity, even Judah with them, hath stumbled.

¹ Come, and let us return unto Yahweh! for, he, hath torn, that he might heal us,––smitten, that he might bind us up.

⁶ Thou, therefore, by thy God, shalt return,––lovingkindness and justice, do thou keep, so wait thou for thy God, continually.

⁹ It hath utterly destroyed thee, O Israel, for it was against me, as thy helper!

¹² Even now, therefore, urgeth Yahweh, Turn ye unto me, with all your heart,––and with fasting and with weeping, and with lamentation; ¹³ And rend your heart, and not your garments, turn therefore, unto Yahweh your God,––for, gracious and full of compassion, is he, slow to anger, and abundant in loving– kindness, and will grieve over calamity.

³ therefore shalt thou say unto them, Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, Return ye unto me, urgeth Yahweh of hosts,––that I may return unto you, saith Yahweh of hosts. ⁴ Do not become like your fathers, unto whom the former prophets, proclaimed, saying, Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, Return, I pray you, from your wicked ways, and from your wicked practices; but they heard not, nor hearkened unto me, declareth Yahweh.

¹⁸ To open their eyes; that they turn from darkness unto light, and the authority of Satan unto God, that they may receive remission of sins, and an inheritance among them who have been made holy by the faith respecting me. ¹⁹ Wherefore, O King Agrippa,––I became not disobedient unto the heavenly vision; ²⁰ But––both to them in Damascus, first, and in Jerusalem, unto all the country of Judaea also, and unto the nations, I carried tidings––that they should repent, and turn unto God, and, works worthy of their repentance, should practise.