| Hosea 14:1 |
Return, O Israel, / To Jehovah your God, / For you have fallen by your iniquity. |
| Hosea 14:2 |
Take words with you, / And return to Jehovah; / Say to Him, / Forgive all iniquity, / And take [us] graciously; / Thus we will render our lips [as] bulls. |
| Hosea 14:3 |
Assyria will not save us; / We will not ride upon horses. / Neither will we say again to the work of our hands, Our God! / Because in You the orphan finds compassion. |
| Hosea 14:4 |
I will heal their apostasy; / I will love them freely; / For My anger has turned away from him. |
| Hosea 14:5 |
I will be like the dew to Israel; / He will bud like the lily / And will send forth his roots like [the] [trees of] Lebanon. |
| Hosea 14:6 |
His shoots will go forth; / And his splendor will be like [that of] the olive tree, / And his fragrance, like [that of the trees of] Lebanon. |
| Hosea 14:7 |
Those who sit under his shade will return; / They will revive [like] grain / And will bud like the vine; / His renown will be like the wine of Lebanon. |
| Hosea 14:8 |
Ephraim [says,] What have I yet to do with idols? / I respond and look on him. / I am like a green fir tree; / From Me your fruit is found. |
| Hosea 14:9 |
Who is wise? / Then let him understand these things. / [Who is] intelligent? Then let him know them. / For the ways of Jehovah are right, / And the righteous will walk in them, / But the transgressors will stumble in them. |