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A Call to Repentance

Hosea 14:1

In 11 translations

BSB
Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled by your iniquity.
KJV
O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.
WEB
Israel, return to Yahweh your God; for you have fallen because of your sin.
ASV
O Israel, return unto Jehovah thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.
LSV
“Turn back, O Israel, to your God YHWH, || For you have stumbled by your iniquity.
YLT
Turn back, O Israel, unto Jehovah thy God, For thou hast stumbled by thine iniquity.
DBY
O Israel, return unto Jehovah thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.Elohim
DRC14:2
Return, O Israel, to the Lord thy God: for thou hast fallen down by thy iniquity.
GNV14:2
O Israel, returne vnto the Lord thy God: for thou hast fallen by thine iniquitie.
JPS14:2
Return, O Israel, unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast stumbled in thine iniquity.
LXXE14:2
Return, O Israel, to the Lord thy God; for the people have fallen through thine iniquities.

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Original-language editions

WLC14:2
שׁ֚וּבָה יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל עַ֖ד יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֑יךָ כִּ֥י כָשַׁ֖לְתָּ בַּעֲוֺנֶֽךָ׃KJV:Hos.14.1
LXX-Br14:2
Ἐπιστράφηθι Ἰσραὴλ πρὸς Κύριον τὸν Θεόν σου, διότι ἠσθένησαν ἐν ταῖς ἀδικίαις σου.

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  • Joel 2:12–13“Yet even now,” declares the LORD, “return to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.” So rend your hearts and not your garments, and return to the LORD your God. For He is gracious and…
  • Hosea 6:1Come, let us return to the LORD. For He has torn us to pieces, but He will heal us; He has wounded us, but He will bind up our wounds.
  • Hosea 12:6But you must return to your God, maintaining love and justice, and always waiting on your God.
  • 2 Chronicles 30:6–9So the couriers went throughout Israel and Judah with letters from the king and his officials, which read: “Children of Israel, return to the LORD, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so that He may return to those…
  • Zechariah 1:3–4So tell the people that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Return to Me, declares the LORD of Hosts, and I will return to you, says the LORD of Hosts.’ Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets…
  • Acts 26:18–20to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those sanctified by faith in Me.’ So then, King…
  • Isaiah 55:6–7Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near. Let the wicked man forsake his own way and the unrighteous man his own thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that He may have compassion, and to our…
  • Jeremiah 4:1“If you will return, O Israel, return to Me,” declares the LORD. “If you will remove your detestable idols from My sight and no longer waver,
  • Hosea 13:9You are destroyed, O Israel, because you are against Me— against your helper.
  • Jeremiah 3:12–14Go, proclaim this message toward the north: ‘Return, O faithless Israel,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will no longer look on you with anger, for I am merciful,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will not be angry forever. Only…
  • Lamentations 5:16The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!
  • Ezekiel 28:14–16You were anointed as a guardian cherub, for I had ordained you. You were on the holy mountain of God; you walked among the fiery stones. From the day you were created you were blameless in your ways— until wickedness…
  • Jeremiah 2:19Your own evil will discipline you; your own apostasies will reprimand you. Consider and realize how evil and bitter it is for you to forsake the LORD your God and to have no fear of Me,” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.
  • Hosea 5:5Israel’s arrogance testifies against them; Israel and Ephraim stumble in their iniquity; even Judah stumbles with them.
  • 1 Samuel 7:3–4Then Samuel said to all the house of Israel, “If you are returning to the LORD with all your hearts, then rid yourselves of the foreign gods and Ashtoreths among you, prepare your hearts for the LORD, and serve Him…

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  • 14:2 in some Bibles
  • 14:1 in most Bibles

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