14Hosea 14

1Turn back, O Israel, unto Jehovah thy God, For thou hast stumbled by thine iniquity.Select Hosea 14:1

2Take with you words, and turn to Jehovah, Say ye unto Him: `Take away all iniquity, and give good, And we do render the fruit of our lips.Select Hosea 14:2

3Asshur doth not save us, on a horse we ride not, Nor do we say any more, Our God, to the work of our hands, For in Thee find mercy doth the fatherless.'Select Hosea 14:3

4I heal their backsliding, I love them freely, For turned back hath Mine anger from him.Select Hosea 14:4

5I am as dew to Israel, he flourisheth as a lily, And he striketh forth his roots as Lebanon.Select Hosea 14:5

6Go on do his sucklings, And his beauty is as an olive, And he hath fragrance as Lebanon.Select Hosea 14:6

7Return do the dwellers under his shadow, They revive as corn, and flourish as a vine, His memorial is as wine of Lebanon.Select Hosea 14:7

8O Ephraim, what to Me any more with idols? I--I afflicted, and I cause him to sing: `I am as a green fir-tree,' From Me is thy fruit found.Select Hosea 14:8

9Who is wise, and doth understand these? Prudent, and knoweth them? For upright are the ways of Jehovah, And the righteous go on in them, And the transgressors stumble therein!Select Hosea 14:9