Hosea
14
- Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God.
Your sins have been your downfall !
- Take words with you and return to the LORD.
Say to him: "Forgive all our sins and receive us graciously, that we
may offer the fruit of our lips.
- Assyria cannot save us; we will not mount
war-horses. We will never again say 'Our gods' to what our own hands have
made, for in you the fatherless find compassion."
- "I will heal their waywardness and
love them freely, for my anger has turned away from them.
- I will be like the dew to Israel; he will
blossom like a lily. Like a cedar of Lebanon he will send down his roots;
- his young shoots will grow. His splendor
will be like an olive tree, his fragrance like a cedar of Lebanon.
- Men will dwell again in his shade. He will
flourish like the grain. He will blossom like a vine, and his fame will be
like the wine from Lebanon.
- O Ephraim, what more have I to do with idols?
I will answer him and care for him. I am like a green pine tree; your fruitfulness
comes from me."
- Who is wise? He will realize these things.
Who is discerning? He will understand them. The ways of the LORD are right;
the righteous walk in them, but the rebellious stumble in them.
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