Bible Strands
Hosea 14:2
Bring your confessions and return to the LORD. Say to Him: “Take away all our iniquity and receive us graciously, that we may present the fruit of our lips.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The prophet addresses Israel, instructing them to bring their confessions and return to Yahweh after stumbling through iniquity (Hosea 14:1).
The words — The text commands the people to take (קְח֤וּ, ke.Chu) words (דְּבָרִ֔ים, de.va.Rim) with them and return (וְ/שׁ֖וּבוּ, ve./Shu.vu) to Yahweh.
The thread — This call to confess and seek forgiveness parallels the plea in Psalms 51:2 to be cleansed from iniquity and the New Testament exhortation in Hebrews 13:15 to offer God the fruit of lips that confess His name.
Why it lands — The passage demands that readers abandon self-reliant substitutes like Assyria or carved idols (Hosea 14:3) and instead bring their spoken confessions directly to God for grace.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Take with you words, and turn to the Lord: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips.
Cross-references
- Psalms 51:2 Wash me clean of my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin.
- Hebrews 13:15 Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise, the fruit of lips that confess His name.
- Job 34:31 Suppose someone says to God, ‘I have endured my punishment; I will offend no more.
- Job 7:21 Why do You not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For soon I will lie down in the dust; You will seek me, but I will be no more.”
- Micah 7:18 Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance—who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?
- 1 John 3:5 But you know that Christ appeared to take away sins, and in Him there is no sin.
- Psalms 69:30 I will praise God’s name in song and exalt Him with thanksgiving.
- 2 Samuel 12:13 Then David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the LORD.” “The LORD has taken away your sin,” Nathan replied. “You will not die.
- Ezekiel 36:25 I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols.
- Joel 2:17 Let the priests who minister before the LORD weep between the portico and the altar, saying, “Spare Your people, O LORD, and do not make Your heritage a reproach, an object of scorn among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’”