Hosea 14:1 {2}
Good News Translation
Return to the LORD your God, people of Israel. Your sin has made you stumble and fall.

New Revised Standard Version
Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled because of your iniquity.

Contemporary English Version
Israel, return! Come back to the LORD, your God. Sin has made you fall.

New American Bible
Return, Israel, to the LORD, your God; you have stumbled because of your iniquity.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Return, O Israel, to the Lord thy God: for thou hast fallen down by thy iniquity.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Return, O Israel, to the Lord thy God: for thou hast fallen down by thy iniquity.

return.

Hosea 6:1 In their affliction they will rise early to me: Come, and let us return to the Lord.

Hosea 12:6 Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and hope in thy God always.

1 Samuel 7:3,4 And Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying: If you turn to the Lord with all your heart, put away the strange gods from among you, Baalim and Astaroth: and prepare your hearts unto the Lord, and serve him only, and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines. . . .

2 Chronicles 30:6-9 And the posts went with letters by commandment of the king, and his princes, to all Israel and Juda, proclaiming according to the king's orders: Ye children of Israel, turn again to the Lord the God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Israel: and he will return to the remnant of you that have escaped the hand of the king of the Assyrians. . . .

Isaiah 55:6,7 Seek ye the Lord, while he may be found: call upon him, while he is near. . . .

Jeremiah 3:12-14 Go, and proclaim these words towards the north, and thou shalt say: Return, O rebellious Israel, saith the Lord, and I will not turn away my face from you: for I am holy, saith the Lord, and I will not be angry for ever. . . .

Jeremiah 4:1 If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the Lord, return to me: if thou wilt take away thy stumblingblocks out of my sight, thou shalt not be moved.

Joel 2:12,13 Now, therefore, saith the Lord. Be converted to me with all your heart, in fasting, and in weeping, and mourning. . . .

Zechariah 1:3,4 And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Turn ye to me, saith the Lord of hosts: and I will turn to you, saith the Lord of hosts. . . .

Acts 26:18-20 To open their eyes, that they may be converted from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a lot among the saints, by the faith that is in me. . . .

thou.

Hosea 13:9 Destruction is thy own, O Israel: thy help is only in me.

Jeremiah 2:19 Thy own wickedness shall reprove thee, and thy apostasy shall rebuke thee. Know thou, and see that it is an evil and a bitter thing for thee, to have left the Lord thy God, and that my fear is not with thee, saith the Lord the God of hosts.

Lamentations 5:16 The crown is fallen from our head: woe to us, because we have sinned.

Ezekiel 28:14-16 Thou a cherub stretched out, and protecting, and I set thee in the holy mountain of God, thou hast walked in the midst of the stones of fire. . . .

Context
An Exhortation to Repentance
1Return, O Israel, to the Lord thy God: for thou hast fallen down by thy iniquity.2Take with you words, and return to the Lord, and say to him: Take away all iniquity, and receive the good: and we will render the calves of our lips.…
Cross References
Isaiah 19:22
And the Lord shall strike Egypt with a scourge, and shall heal it, and they shall return to the Lord, and he shall be pacified towards them, and heal them.

Ezekiel 33:11
Say to them: As I live, saith the Lord God, I desire not the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way, and live. Turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways: and why will you die, O house of Israel?

Ezekiel 33:14
And it I shall say to the wicked: Thou shalt surely die: and he do penance for his sin, and do judgment and justice,

Hosea 4:8
They shall eat the sins of my people, and shall lift up their souls to their iniquity.

Hosea 5:5
And the pride of Israel shall answer in his face: and Israel, and Ephraim shall fall in their iniquity, Juda also shall fall with them.

Hosea 6:1
In their affliction they will rise early to me: Come, and let us return to the Lord.

Hosea 9:7
The days of visitation are come, the days of repaying are come: know ye, O Israel, that the prophet was foolish, the spiritual man was mad, for the multitude of thy iniquity, and the multitude of thy madness.

Hosea 10:12
Sow for yourselves in justice, and reap in the mouth of mercy, break up your fallow ground: but the time to seek the Lord is, when he shall come that shall teach you justice.

Hosea 12:6
Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and hope in thy God always.

Hosea 12:8
And Ephraim said: But yet I am become rich, I have found me an idol: all my labours shall not find me the iniquity that I have committed.

Joel 2:13
And rend your hearts, and not your garments and turn to the Lord your God: for he is gracious and merciful, patient and rich in mercy, and ready to repent of the evil.

Hosea 13:16
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