Hosea 2:14

“Therefore, behold, I will allure her, etc.] Since these rough ways will not do, I will take another, a more mild and gentle way; instead of threatening, terrifying, and punishing, I will allure, persuade, and entice, giving loving words and winning language: or “nevertheless”, or “notwithstanding”f35: so Noldius and others render the particle; though they have thus behaved themselves, and such methods have been taken with them to no purpose, yet I will do as follows: the words may be understood of the call and conversion of the people of God, the spiritual Israel of God, both Jews and Gentiles, in the first times of the Gospel, as (<280223>Hosea 2:23) is quoted and applied by the Apostle…”

“Therefore--rather, "Nevertheless" [HENDERSON]. English Version gives a more lovely idea of God. That which would provoke all others to unappeasable wrath, Israel's perversity and consequent punishment, is made a reason why God should at last have mercy on her. As the "therefore" (Hos 2:9) expresses Israel's punishment as the consequence of Israel's guilt, so "therefore" here, as in Hos 2:6, expresses, that when that punishment has effected its designed end, the hedging up her way with thorns so that she returns to God, her first love, the consequence in God's wondrous grace is, He "speaks comfortably" (literally, "speaks to her heart"; compare Jdg 19:8; Rut 2:13). So obstinate is she that…”

“Therefore - The inference is not what we should have expected. Sin and forgetfulness of God are not the natural causes of, and inducements to mercy. But God deals not with us, as we act one to another. Extreme misery and degradation revolt man; man’s miseries invite God’s mercies. God therefore has mercy, not because we deserve it, but because we need it. He therefore draws us, because we are so deeply sunken. He prepareth the soul by those harder means, and then the depths of her misery cry to the depths of His compassion, and because chastisement alone would stupify her, not melt her, He changes His wrath into mercy, and speaks to the heart which, for her salvation, He has broken. I will…”

“I will allure - I will incline her mind to consider what I propose. Into the wilderness - Deep distress. Hosea 2:15”

“2:14-15 The third judgment (see note on 2:6-7) is completely unexpected. The Lord, who had innocently suffered Israel’s repeated unfaithfulness, announces that he will take the initiative in wooing Israel in order to win her back once again. He will lead her into the desert where he first entered into covenant with her, away from the seductive influences of Canaanite religion. • The Valley of Trouble was the scene of Israel’s first act of disobedience after they entered the Promised Land (Josh 7:24-26). The Lord had both the will and the power to grant Israel a new beginning after their sin and trouble (Josh 8:1-22), so Israel would again be offered a gateway of hope.”

“Therefore: Isa 30:18; Jer 16:14 I will: Sol 1:4; Joh 6:44, Joh 12:32 and bring: Hos 2:3; Jer 2:2; Eze 20:10, Eze 20:35, Eze 20:36; Rev 12:6, Rev 12:14 and speak: Isa 35:3, Isa 35:4, Isa 40:1, Isa 40:2, Isa 49:13-26, 51:3-23; Jer 3:12-24, Jer 30:18-22; Jer. 31:1-37, Jer 32:36-41, 33:6-26; Eze 34:22-31, Eze 36:8-15, 37:11-28; Eze 39:25-29; Amo 9:11-15; Mic 7:14-20; Zep 3:9-20; Zac 1:12-17; Zac 8:19-23; Rom 11:26, Rom 11:27 comfortably: or, friendly, Heb. to her heart, Gen 34:3; Jdg 19:3 \*marg. Hosea 2:15”

“In Hos 2:14 the promise is introduced quite as abruptly as in Hos 2:1, that the Lord will lead back the rebellious nation step by step to conversion and reunion with Himself, the righteous God. In two strophes we have first the promise of their conversion ( Hos 2:14-17), and secondly, the assurance of the renewal of the covenant mercies ( Hos 2:18-23). Hos 2:14, Hos 2:15. "Therefore, behold, I allure her, and lead her into the desert, and speak to her heart. And I give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor (of tribulation) for the door of hope; and she answers thither, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt." לכן, therefore…”