[724] vii. 16, _They turn, but not upwards_; xiv. 5, _Mine anger is turned away_. [725] ii. 9. [726] viii. 13; ix. 3; xi. 5. [727] iv. 9: cf. xii. 3, 15. [728] xi. 9: cf. ii. 11. [729] This may be further seen in the very common phrase שבות שוב עמי, _to turn again_ the captivity of My people (see Hosea vi. 11); or in the use of שוב in xiv. 8, where it has the force, auxiliary to the other verb in the clause, of repeating or coming back to do a thing. But the text here needs emendation: cf. above, p. 315. Cf. Amos' use of the Hiphil form to _draw back_, _withdraw_, i. 3, 6, 9, 11, 13; ii. 1, 4, 6. [730] Cf. xi. 5, _they refused to return_. [731] vi. 1, _Come and let us return to Jehovah_; vii. 10, _They did not return to Jehovah_; xiv. 2, 3, _Return, O Israel, to Jehovah_. [732] iii. 5, _They shall return and seek Jehovah their God_; v. 4, _Their deeds do not allow them to return to their God_. [733] v. 12, etc. [734] iv. 2 ff.; vi. 7 ff., etc. [735] vii. 7. [736] ix. 11 ff. [737] xii. 2. [738] vii. 7. [739] v. 5; vii. 10. [740] See above, p. 261. [741] vii. 16. [742] x. 5. [743] vii. 10. [744] ii. 16, etc.; ix. 2 ff., etc. [745] ix. 4. [746] xii. 10. [747] iv. 6, 8, 9, 10, 11. [748] ix. 1. See above, p. 279. [749] See above, p. 279, _n._ 4. [750] v. 26. [751] עֵצֶב from עָצַב, which in Job x. 8 is parallel to עשה. [752] ii. 8. [753] viii. 4. [754] viii. 5. [755] x. 5. [756] xiii. 2. [757] Isa. xli. ff. [758] iv. 17. [759] Amos v. [760] vi. 6. [761] xiv. 2. Perhaps the curious expression at the close of the verse, _so will we render the calves of our lips_, or (as a variant reading gives) _fruit of our lips_, has the same intention. Articulate confession (or vows), these are the sacrifices, _the calves_, which are acceptable to God. [762] vi. 1-4. [763] For the reasons for this interpretation see above, pp. 263 ff. [764] x. 11. [765] See above, p. 288. [766] x. 12. [767] xii. 7. CHAPTER XXIII _THE SIN AGAINST LOVE_ HOSEA i.-iii.; iv. 11 ff.; ix. 10 ff.; xi. 8 f. The Love of God is a terrible thing--that is the last lesson of the Book of Hosea. _My God will cast them away._[768]