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The Lord Offers to Forgive Israel

14 [a]Israel, return to Yahweh your Elohim.
    You have stumbled because of your sins.
Return to Yahweh, and say these things to him:
    “Forgive all our sins, and kindly receive us.
        Then we’ll praise you with our lips.
Assyria cannot save us.
    We won’t ride on horses anymore.
        We will never again say
            that the things our hands have made are our gods.
                You love orphans.”

The Lord says, “I will cure them of their unfaithfulness.
    I will love them freely.
    I will no longer be angry with them.
I will be like dew to the people of Israel.
    They will blossom like flowers.
    They will be firmly rooted like cedars from Lebanon.
They will be like growing branches.
    They will be beautiful like olive trees.
    They will be fragrant like cedars from Lebanon.
They will live again in God’s shadow.
    They will grow like grain.
    They will blossom like grapevines.
    They will be as famous as the wines from Lebanon.

“The people of Ephraim will have nothing more to do with idols.
    I will answer them and take care of them.
        I am like a growing pine tree.
            Their fruit comes from me.”

Wise people will understand these things.
    A person with insight will recognize them.
    Yahweh’s ways are right.
        Righteous people live by them.
        Rebellious people stumble over them.

Footnotes

  1. Hosea 14:1 Hosea 14:1–9 in English Bibles is Hosea 14:2–10 in the Hebrew Bible.

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