Hosea 14
1 Return! O Israel to Yahweh God your for you have stumbled on iniquity your.
Return, O Israel, unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast stumbled in thine iniquity.
2 Take with you words and return to Yahweh say to him every you will forgive iniquity and take good thing[s] so let us pay bulls lips our.
Take with you words, and return unto the LORD; say unto Him: 'Forgive all iniquity, and accept that which is good; so will we render for bullocks the offering of our lips.
3 Assyria - not it will save us on horse[s] not we will ride and not we will say again gods our to [the] work of hands our that by you he is shown compassion [the] fatherless.
Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses; neither will we call any more the work of our hands our gods; for in Thee the fatherless findeth mercy.'
4 I will heal apostasy their I will love them voluntariness for it has turned away anger my from him.
I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely; for Mine anger is turned away from him.
5 I will be like the dew to Israel it will blossom like lily and it may strike roots its like Lebanon.
I will be as the dew unto Israel; he shall blossom as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.
6 They will go young shoots its and it may be like olive tree splendor its and fragrance of it like Lebanon.
His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive-tree, and his fragrance as Lebanon.
7 They will return [those who] dwell in shade its they will cause to grow grain so they may blossom like vine memorial its [will be] like [the] wine of Lebanon.
They that dwell under his shadow shall again make corn to grow, and shall blossom as the vine; the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon.
8 O Ephraim what? to me again to idols I I will answer and I will watch over it I [am] like a cypress tree luxuriant from me fruit your it is found.
Ephraim shall say: 'What have I to do any more with idols?' As for Me, I respond and look on him; I am like a leafy cypress-tree; from Me is thy fruit found.
9 Who? [is] wise and let him understand these [things] discerning? and let him know them for [are] upright [the] ways of Yahweh and righteous [people] they walk in them and transgressors they stumble in them.
Whoso is wise, let him understand these things, whoso is prudent, let him know them. For the ways of the LORD are right, and the just do walk in them; but transgressors do stumble therein.
