Israel, return to Yahweh your God; For you have fallen because of your sin.
A failure to discern the Messianic thrust of this chapter has led to efforts of some scholars to reject the chapter.  "Many interpreters have denied the authenticity of this chapter because it appears to be out of line with the predictions of irrevocable doom set forth in the preceding chapters."[3]  The utter lack of any internal or external evidence whatever that would support such denials has frustrated them.  The chapter is clearly authentic.  The chapter is not really surprising; for even the doctrine of the new birth was suggested in  Hosea 13:13, and the promises of the resurrection in  Hosea 13:14 were clearly received by Paul as New Covenant doctrine  (1 Corinthians 15:55).  Failing in all efforts to deny the chapter as authentic, some have resorted to the device of applying it to some earlier period of Hosea's ministry when repentance of the Northern kingdom might have been possible.  McKeating, for example, said, "It may come from an earlier part of his ministry."[4]  No such explanation is adequate.  Viewing the whole chapter as a prophecy of the New Israel during the reign of Christ explains everything and accounts for its placement here as the climax of the entire prophecy.