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Hosea 14:2

Hosea 14:2

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

Take with you words, and turn to the Lord.

(1) Some render this clause. "Take with you [i.e. forget not, neglect not, but receive with obedient spirit] my words." This rendering is obviously erroneous.

The position of כָל before the verb creates a difficulty and causes diversity of rendering; for example,

(1) besides the ordinary rendering, which takes kol as holding its peculiar position by an hypallage, there is a modification of it: "All take away of iniquity."

There is

So will we render the calves of our lips.

This is more accurately rendered,

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