LITV - Hosea - 14

14:1  O Israel, return to Jehovah your God, for you have fallen by your sin.

14:2  Take words with you and return to Jehovah. Say to Him, Take away all iniquity and receive us well, that we may repay with the calves of our lips.

14:3  Assyria shall not save us; we will not ride on horses. We shall not say any more to the work of our hands, Our gods! For in You the fatherless finds mercy.

14:4  I will heal their backslidings; I will love them freely; for My anger has turned away from him.

14:5  I will be as the dew to Israel; he shall blossom as the lily and cast out his roots like Lebanon.

14:6  His branches shall go out, and his beauty shall be like the olive tree, and his scent as Lebanon to Him.

14:7  They who live under his shadow shall return; they shall live like the grain, and blossom like the vine; their memorial shall be as the wine of Lebanon.

14:8  Ephraim shall say , What is to me any more with idols? I eyed him , and I surveyed him. I am as a green cypress tree; your fruit is found from Me.

14:9  Who is wise and discerns these things? Who is discerning and knows them? For the ways of Jehovah are right, and the righteous shall walk in them; but transgressors shall stumble in them.