Hosea 14:1-2

A Plea to Return to the Lord

¹ _n Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God,
for _o you have stumbled because of your iniquity.
² Take with you words
and return to the Lord;
say to him,
"Take away all iniquity;
accept _p what is good,
and we will pay with bulls
_q the vows ₁ of our lips.

1. Cross References
   Hosea 6:1
   Come, let us return to the Lord ; for he has torn us, that he may heal us; he has struck us down, and he will bind us up.
   Hosea 12:6
   "So you, by the help of your God, return, hold fast to love and justice, and wait continually for your God."
   Hosea 3:5
   Afterward the children of Israel shall return and seek the Lord their God, and David their king, and they shall come in fear to the Lord and to his goodness in the latter days.
   
2. Cross References
   Hosea 13:9
   He destroys you, O Israel, for you are against me, against your helper.
   
3. Cross References
   Hosea 5:15
   I will return again to my place, until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face, and in their distress earnestly seek me.
   
4. Cross References
   Hebrews 13:15
   Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name.
   Psalms 50:13 - 14
   Do I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of goats?
   Psalms 69:30 - 31
   I will praise the name of God with a song; I will magnify him with thanksgiving.