- Is there any ascription of this chapter — is it a vision? a message to the prophet to be communicated?
- What is predicted for Israel in Hosea 14:1?
- But, does Hosea 14:2 presuppose the avoidance of the dire prediction?
- Where in the haftarot of the year does this particular chapter appear?
- What does the word “shuvah” mean — repent? return? And, if the latter, to whom or what?
- What is it that should be said to Divinity by the Israelites who are “shuving”?
- Beginning with Hosea 14:5, does the prophecy offer hope or criticism?
- In Hosea 14:6, is the word Eheyeh a verb or a proper noun (see Moses, Exodus, and the Burning Bush vignette)?
- Why would roots of Lebanon be regarded as a blessing?
- What is expected that Ephraim will declare (Hosea 14:9)?
- Does the concluding verse of the final chapter (Hosea 14:10) seem to refer to this chapter? To the entire book? To something other?
- Does the word “these” actually refer to “these words”?
- What is meant by the observation that the ways of God are straight (or smooth) and Tzadikim (those who live justly and righteously) will walk in them but transgressors will stumble in them?
