Hosea 14
1 Ao Israel, sane wʼakyi kɔ Awurade wo Onyankopɔn nkyɛn. Wʼahweaseɛ firi wo bɔne!
Return, Israel, to the Lord your God, for you have stumbled in your iniquity.
2 Fa wo nsɛm a wowɔ sane kɔ Awurade nkyɛn. Ka kyerɛ no sɛ, “Fa yɛn bɔne nyinaa kyɛ yɛn, na fa ahummɔborɔ gye yɛn, na yɛatumi ayi wo ayɛ.
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 Asiria rentumi nnye yɛn; yɛrentena akofoɔ apɔnkɔ so. Yɛrenka bio da sɛ, ‘Yɛn anyame’ nkyerɛ deɛ yɛn ara de yɛn nsa ayɛ, na wo mu na nwisiaa nya ahummɔborɔ.”
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 “Mɛsa wɔn asobrakyeɛ yadeɛ. Mɛfiri mʼakoma mu adɔ wɔn, ɛfiri sɛ mʼabufuo nni wɔn so bio.
“I will heal their apostasy, I will love them freely, now that my anger is turned away from them,
5 Mɛyɛ sɛ obosuo ama Israel. Ɔbɛfefɛ ayɛ frɔmm te sɛ sukooko. Te sɛ Lebanon ntweneduro no ɔde ne nhini bɛtim fam;
I will be as dew to Israel. He will blossom like the lily, he will plant his roots like the cedars of Lebanon,
6 ne mman bɛdennan. Nʼahoɔfɛ bɛyɛ sɛ ngo dua, na ne hwa ayɛ sɛ Lebanon ntweneduro.
his saplings will spread out, his beauty will be like that of the olive tree, his fragrance like the cedars of Lebanon.
7 Nnipa bɛtena ne nwunu ase bio. Ɔbɛnyini ayɛ frɔmm te sɛ aburoo. Ɔbɛfefɛ ayɛ frɔmm te sɛ bobe, na ne din a ahyeta bɛyɛ sɛ nsã a ɛfiri 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 Ao, Efraim ɛdeɛn na me ne ahoni wɔ yɛ bio? Mɛgye no so na mʼani aku ne ho. Mete sɛ dua a nʼahahan mpo; sɛ wobɛso aba a, ɛgyina me so.”
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 Hwan ne onyansafoɔ? Ɔbɛhunu yeinom mu. Hwan na ɔwɔ nhunumu? Ɔbɛte yeinom ase. Awurade akwan tene. Ateneneefoɔ nante so, nanso asoɔdenfoɔ sunti so.
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.
