Hosea 14

Hosea 14:1

But, notwithstanding all the misery ye have brought upon yourselves by your sins, return, by faith and repentance, to me, who have granted myself to you in the gospel as your reconciled God

Hosea 14:2

Earnestly beg that I may pardon your guilt, mortify your corruptions, accept you into favour, adopt you into my family, and bestow upon you all necessary blessings, that may fill your hearts and mouths with grateful praise

Hosea 14:3

Solemnly renounce all carnal confidence in foreign forces, military preparations, or lying idols, and trust only in me, as the helper of the helpless outcasts

Hosea 14:4

And I, as one graciously reconciled in Christ, will, in free mercy, pardon your iniquities, reform you from your evil courses, remove the judgments which ye have deserved, and confer upon you unmerited favours

Hosea 14:5-7

And not only will I, by my favourable dispensations of providence, after the captivity in Babylon, and especially in the millennium, render you glorious, well established, numerous, and every way prosperous, useful, and respected as a nation; but, by the gracious influences of 10 B Before Christ cir. 750, or 780