Hosea 14:4
I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.
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'I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him' — Hosea's concluding oracle of restoration follows the call-to-repentance prayer of verses 2–3, answering human penitential words with a cascading series of divine promises: healing, free love, fertilizing dew (verse 5), blossoming and rooting (verse 6), fragrant shade (verse 7). The Hebrew 'freely' (nedabah — spontaneously, as a freewill offering) frames divine love not as contractual response to repentance but as uncaused, generous initiative — anticipating New Testament language of prevenient grace. The verse has been foundational in Jewish and Christian traditions of preaching divine forgiveness as inexhaustible and freely given.
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I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely; for mine anger is turned away from him.
I heal their backsliding, I love them freely, For turned back hath Mine anger from him.
I will put right their errors; freely will my love be given to them, for my wrath is turned away from him.
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