« | Hosea 14 |
1 Return to the Lord your God, O Israel, for you have fallen because of your sin.
2 Take words with you and return to the Lord. Say to Him, "Take away all sin, and receive us in kindness, that we may praise You with our lips.
3 Assyria will not save us. We will not ride on horses. And we will never say again, 'Our god,' to what we have made with our hands. For those who have no father find loving-kindness in You."
4 "I will bring My people back to Me. I will not hold back My love from them, for I am no longer angry with them.
5 I will be to Israel like the water on the grass in the early morning. He will grow like the lily, and have roots like the cedars of Lebanon.
6 His young branches will spread out and his beauty will be like the olive tree. His smell will be like the cedars of Lebanon.
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