« | Hosea 14 |
1 Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God; for the people have fallen through your iniquities.
2 Take with you words, and turn to the Lord your God. Speak to Him, that you may not receive [the reward of] unrighteousness, but that you may receive good things; and we will render in return the fruit of our lips.
3 Assyria shall never save us; we will not mount on horseback; we will no longer say to the works of our hands, Our gods. He who is in you shall pity the orphan.
4 I will restore their dwellings, I will love them truly: for he has turned away My wrath from him.
5 I will be as dew to Israel: he shall bloom as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.
6 His branches shall spread, and he shall be as a fruitful olive, and his smell shall be as [the smell] of Lebanon.
7 They shall return, and dwell under his shadow: they shall live and be satisfied with grain, and he shall flower like a vine. His memorial shall be to Ephraim as the wine of Lebanon.
8 What [has] he to do anymore with idols? I have afflicted him, and I will strengthen him. I am as a leafy juniper tree. From Me is your fruit found.
9 Who is wise, and will understand these things? Or prudent, and will know them? For the ways of the Lord are straight, and the righteous shall walk in them; but the ungodly shall fall therein.
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