Hosea 14

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

Return, Israel, to the Lord your God, for you have stumbled in 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

Take words of repentance with you, and return to the Lord your God. Say to him: Wholly pardon our iniquity, accept that which is good, instead of sacrificing bulls, we offer our praise.

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 Egyptian warhorses, and we will no more call the work of our hands our gods. For in you orphan Israel finds 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 apostasy, I will love them freely, now that 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 dew to Israel. He will blossom like the lily, he will plant his roots 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 saplings will spread out, his beauty will be like that of 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

People will return and dwell in my shade, they will bring life to new grain. They shall sprout like the vine, and their renown will be like 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 – what have I to do with idols! It is I the Lord who respond to him and look after him. I am like an evergreen cypress, from me is your 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

Whoever is wise, let him discern these things, prudent, let him perceive them; For the Lord’s ways are straight, and the righteous walk in them, but the wicked stumble in them.