Hosea 14

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

Return, O Israel, even unto the Lord thy God; for thou hast stumbled through thy 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

Take with you swords, and return to the Lord: say unto him, “Pardon all [our] iniquity, and accept [our return to] good; and let us repay the steers [of sacrifice] with [the prayer 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

Asshur shall not help us; upon horses will we not ride: and we will no more say, Ye are our gods, to the work of our hands; for in thee alone the fatherless obtaineth mercy.”

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

I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely; for my anger is 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 as the dew unto Israel: he shall bloom as the lily; and he shall strike his roots as [the forests 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 suckers shall spread out, and his beauty shall be as that of the olive-tree, and his smell as that of the 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 shall return that sat under his shade; they shall revive as corn, and bloom as the vine: the scent of which shall be as that of 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

Ephraim [shall say], What have I to do any more with idols? I have answered, and will observe him; I will be [to him] like a green fir-tree; through me is thy fruit found.

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

Who is wise, that he may understand these things? intelligent, that he may know them? for righteous are the ways of the Lord; and the just shall walk in them; but the transgressors will stumble through them.