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Hosea 14
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1Israel, return to Yahweh your God;
- for you have fallen because of your sin.
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2Take words with you, and return to Yahweh.
- Tell him, “Forgive all our sins,
- and accept that which is good:
- so we offer our lips like bulls.
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3Assyria can’t save us.
- We won’t ride on horses;
- neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, ‘Our gods!’
- for in you the fatherless finds mercy.”
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4“I will heal their waywardness.
- I will love them freely;
- for my anger is turned away from him.
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5I will be like the dew to Israel.
- He will blossom like the lily,
- and send down his roots like Lebanon.
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6His branches will spread,
- and his beauty will be like the olive tree,
- and his fragrance like Lebanon.
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7Men will dwell in his shade.
- They will revive like the grain,
- and blossom like the vine.
- Their fragrance will be like the wine of Lebanon.
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8Ephraim, what have I to do any more with idols?
- I answer, and will take care of him.
- I am like a green fir tree;
- from me your fruit is found.”
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9Who is wise, that he may understand these things?
- Who is prudent, that he may know them?
- For the ways of Yahweh are right,
- and the righteous walk in them;
- But the rebellious stumble in them.
