Hosea 14

Hosea 13 Joel 1

Hosea 14 Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

A Plea to Repent

14 Israel, return to the Lord your God,
for you have stumbled in your iniquity.
²Take words of repentance with you
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.
³Assyria will not save us,
we will not ride on horses,
and we will no longer proclaim, ‘Our gods!’
to the work of our hands.
For the fatherless receives compassion in you.”

A Promise of Restoration

⁴I will heal their apostasy;
I will freely love them,
for my anger will have turned from him.
⁵I will be like the dew to Israel;
he will blossom like the lily
and take root like the cedars of Lebanon.
⁶His new branches will spread,
and his splendor will be like the olive tree,
his fragrance, like the forest of Lebanon.
⁷The people will return and live beneath his shade.
They will grow grain
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?
It is I who answer and watch over him.
I am like a flourishing pine tree;
your fruit comes from me.

⁹Let whoever is wise understand these things,
and whoever is insightful recognize them.
For the ways of the Lord are right,
and the righteous walk in them,
but the rebellious stumble in them.

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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