Hosea 14:1 (LSB)

Passage

Return, O Israel, to Yahweh your God, For you have stumbled in your iniquity.

Nearby Context

Hosea 14:1 Return, O Israel, to Yahweh your God, For you have stumbled in your iniquity.

Hosea 14:2 Take words with you and return to Yahweh. Say to Him, “Forgive all iniquity And take what is good, That we may pay in full the fruit of our lips.

Hosea 14:3 Assyria will not save us; We will not ride on horses, Nor will we say again, ‘Our god,’ To the work of our hands; For in You the orphan finds compassion.”

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "return", "israel", "yahweh", "stumbled", and "iniquity". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "return" and "israel", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The next verse adds "Take words with you and return to...", so "return" and "israel" should be read forward into that movement. In Hosea context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "return" and "israel" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.