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“I will correct their apostasy,
    loving them freely,
        since my anger will have turned away from them.[a]
I will be like the dew to Israel;
    Israel[b] will blossom like a lily,
        growing roots like the cedars of[c] Lebanon.
Israel’s[d] branches will spread out,
    and its beauty will be like an olive tree,
        with its scent like that of Lebanon.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 14:4 Lit. him
  2. Hosea 14:5 Lit. he
  3. Hosea 14:5 The Heb. lacks the cedars of
  4. Hosea 14:6 Lit. His