Hosea 14

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A Plea to Repent

14 Israel, return to the Lord your God,^(A)
for you have stumbled in your iniquity.^(B)
²Take words of repentance with you^(C)
and return to the Lord.
Say to him, “Forgive all our iniquity
and accept what is good,
so that we may repay you
with praise^[a] from our^[b] lips.^(D)
³Assyria will not save us,^(E)
we will not ride on horses,^(F)
and we will no longer proclaim, ‘Our gods!’ ^(G)
to the work of our hands.^(H)
For the fatherless receives compassion in you.”^(I)

A Promise of Restoration

⁴I will heal their apostasy;^(J)
I will freely love them,^(K)
for my anger will have turned from him.^(L)
⁵I will be like the dew to Israel;^(M)
he will blossom like the lily^(N)
and take root like the cedars of Lebanon.^(O)
⁶His new branches will spread,
and his splendor will be like the olive tree,^(P)
his fragrance, like the forest of Lebanon.^(Q)
⁷The people will return and live beneath his shade.^(R)
They will grow grain^(S)
and blossom like the vine.
His renown will be like the wine of Lebanon.

⁸Ephraim, why should I^[c] have anything more
to do with idols?^(T)
It is I who answer and watch over him.
I am like a flourishing pine tree;^(U)
your fruit comes from me.^(V)

⁹Let whoever is wise^(W) understand these things,
and whoever is insightful recognize them.
For the ways of the Lord are right,^(X)
and the righteous walk in them,^(Y)
but the rebellious stumble in them.^(Z)

Footnotes

14:2 LXX reads with the fruit
14:2 Lit repay the bulls of our
14:8 LXX reads he

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