Hos 14
1
O Israel, return to YHWH your God; for you have fallen by your iniquity.
2
Take with you words, and return to YHWH: say to him, Take away all iniquity, and accept
that which is good: so will we render [as] bullocks [the offering of] our lips.
3
Assyria shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses; neither will we say any more
to the work of our hands, [You are] our gods; for in you the fatherless finds mercy.
4
I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely; for mine anger is turned away
from him.
5
I will be as the dew to Israel; he shall blossom as the lily, and cast forth his roots
as Lebanon.
6
His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive-tree, and his smell
as Lebanon.
7
They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive [as] the grain, and
blossom as the vine: its scent shall be as the wine of Lebanon.
8
Ephraim [shall say], What have I to do any more with idols? I have answered, and will
regard him: I am like a green fir-tree; from me is your fruit found.
9
Who is wise, that he may understand these things? prudent, that he may know them?
for the ways of YHWH are right, and the just shall walk in them; but transgressors
shall fall therein.