Charles Spurgeon Commentary Hosea 14:4-5

"I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely; for mine anger is turned away from him. I will be as the dew unto Israel; he shall blossom as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon." — Hosea 14:4-5 (ASV)

I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for my anger is turned away from him. I will be as the dew to Israel:

"Swiftly and mysteriously will I come and refresh him."

For mine anger is turned away from him. I will be as the dew unto Israel:

You know that in the East the dew is a great fertilizer, even more so than it is here. When a plot of ground is all browned by the hot sun, the dew makes it green and fruitful again. So God says, I will be as the dew unto Israel: