Hosea 14

1 to return: return [emph?] Israel till LORD God your for to stumble in/on/with iniquity: crime your

Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled by your iniquity.

2 to take: take with you word and to return: return to(wards) LORD to say to(wards) him all to lift: forgive iniquity: crime and to take: recieve good and to complete bullock lips our

Bring your confessions and return to the LORD. Say to Him: “Take away all our iniquity and receive us graciously, that we may present the fruit of our lips.

3 Assyria not to save us upon horse not to ride and not to say still God our to/for deed: work hand our which in/on/with you to have compassion orphan

Assyria will not save us, nor will we ride on horses. We will never again say, ‘Our gods!’ to the work of our own hands. For in You the fatherless find compassion.”

4 to heal faithlessness their to love: lover them voluntariness for to return: turn back face: anger my from him

I will heal their apostasy; I will freely love them, for My anger has turned away from them.

5 to be like/as dew to/for Israel to sprout like/as lily and to smite root his like/as Lebanon

I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like the lily and take root like the cedars of Lebanon.

6 to go: walk shoot his and to be like/as olive splendor his and aroma to/for him like/as Lebanon

His shoots will sprout, and his splendor will be like the olive tree, his fragrance like the cedars of Lebanon.

7 to return: return to dwell in/on/with shadow his to live grain and to sprout like/as vine memorial his like/as wine Lebanon

They will return and dwell in his shade; they will grow grain and blossom like the vine. His renown will be like the wine of Lebanon.

8 Ephraim what? to/for me still to/for idol I to answer and to see him I like/as cypress luxuriant from me fruit your to find

O Ephraim, what have I to do anymore with idols? It is I who answer and watch over him. I am like a flourishing cypress; your fruit comes from Me.

9 who? wise and to understand these to understand and to know them for upright way: conduct LORD and righteous to go: walk in/on/with them and to transgress to stumble in/on/with them

Whoever is wise, let him understand these things; whoever is discerning, let him know them. For the ways of the LORD are right, and the righteous walk in them but the rebellious stumble in them.