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Hosea 14
World English Bible British Edition · Berean Standard Bible
Israel, return to the LORD your God;
Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled by your iniquity.
Take words with you, and return to the LORD.
Bring your confessions and return to the LORD. Say to Him: “Take away all our iniquity and receive us graciously, that we may present the fruit of our lips (note: LXX and Syriac; Hebrew that we may present our lips as sacrificial bulls).
Assyria can’t save us.
Assyria will not save us, nor will we ride on horses. We will never again say, ‘Our gods!’ to the work of our own hands. For in You the fatherless find compassion.”
“I will heal their waywardness.
I will heal their apostasy; I will freely love them, for My anger has turned away from them.
I will be like the dew to Israel.
I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like the lily and take root like the cedars of Lebanon.
His branches will spread,
His shoots will sprout, and his splendor will be like the olive tree, his fragrance like the cedars of Lebanon.
Men will dwell in his shade.
They will return and dwell in his shade; they will grow grain and blossom like the vine. His renown will be like the wine of Lebanon.
Ephraim, what have I to do any more with idols?
O Ephraim (note: That is, the northern kingdom of Israel), what have I to do anymore with idols? It is I who answer and watch over him. I am like a flourishing cypress (note: Or pine or juniper or fir); your fruit comes from Me.
Who is wise, that he may understand these things?
Whoever is wise, let him understand these things; whoever is discerning, let him know them. For the ways of the LORD are right, and the righteous walk in them but the rebellious stumble in them.