Hosea 14
1 Return, O Israel, unto the LORD thy God; For thou hast stumbled in thine iniquity.
2 Take with you words, And return unto the LORD; Say unto Him: ‘Forgive all iniquity, And accept that which is good; So will we render for bullocks the offering of our lips.
3 Asshur shall not save us; We will not ride upon horses; Neither will we call any more the work of our hands our gods; For in Thee the fatherless findeth mercy.’
4 I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely; For Mine anger is turned away from him.
5 I will be as the dew unto Israel; He shall blossom as the lily, And cast forth his roots as Lebanon.
6 His branches shall spread, And his beauty shall be as the olive-tree, And his fragrance as Lebanon.
7 They that dwell under his shadow shall again Make corn to grow, And shall blossom as the vine; The scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon.
8 Ephraim [shall say]: ‘What have I to do any more with idols?’ As for Me, I respond and look on him; I am like a leafy cypress-tree; From Me is thy fruit found.
9 Whoso is wise, let him understand these things, Whoso is prudent, let him know them. For the ways of the LORD are right, And the just do walk in them; But transgressors do stumble therein.