RWebster - Hosea - 14

14:1  O Israel, return to the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thy iniquity.

14:2  Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say to him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips.

14:3  Assyria shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.

14:4  I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for my anger is turned away from him.

14:5  I will be as the dew to Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.

14:6  His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his fragrance like Lebanon.

14:7  They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive as the grain, and grow as the vine: the scent of it shall be as the wine of Lebanon.

14:8  Ephraimshall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have heardhim, and observed him: I am like a green fir tree. From me is thy fruit found.

14:9  Who is wise, and he shall understand these things ? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall in them.