< Hosea 14 >
1 Return! O Israel to Yahweh God your for you have stumbled on iniquity your.
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.
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.
4 I will heal apostasy their I will love them voluntariness for it has turned away anger my from him.
5 I will be like the dew to Israel it will blossom like lily and it may strike roots its like Lebanon.
6 They will go young shoots its and it may be like olive tree splendor its and fragrance of it like 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.
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.
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.