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Bring a prepared speech with you
    as you return to the Lord. Say to him:

‘Take away all our[a] iniquity,
    and accept what is good.
Then we will present the fruit[b] of our lips.
Assyria won’t save us;
    we won’t be riding on horses,
Nor will we be saying anymore to the work of our hands,
    “You are[c] our God.”
        Indeed, in you the orphan finds mercy.’

“I will correct their apostasy,
    loving them freely,
        since my anger will have turned away from them.[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 14:2 The Heb. lacks our
  2. Hosea 14:2 So LXX and DSS. MT reads bulls
  3. Hosea 14:3 The Heb. lacks You are
  4. Hosea 14:4 Lit. him

Take words with you
    and return to the Lord.
Say to him:
    “Forgive(A) all our sins
and receive us graciously,(B)
    that we may offer the fruit of our lips.[a](C)
Assyria cannot save us;(D)
    we will not mount warhorses.(E)
We will never again say ‘Our gods’(F)
    to what our own hands have made,(G)
    for in you the fatherless(H) find compassion.”

“I will heal(I) their waywardness(J)
    and love them freely,(K)
    for my anger has turned away(L) from them.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 14:2 Or offer our lips as sacrifices of bulls