LEB HOS Chapter 14

Return to Yahweh

• 14 Return to Yahweh your God, O Israel,
  • for you have stumbled because of your sin.
• 2 Take words with you,
  • and return to Yahweh.
• Say to him,
  • “Take away all guilt;
• accept good, and we will offer
  • the fruit[fn] of our lips.
• 3 Assyria will not save us;
  • we will not ride on horses,[fn]
• and we will say no more, “Our God,”
  • to the work of our hands
  • because in you the fatherless child finds mercy.
• 4 I will heal their disloyalty;[fn]
  • I will love them freely
  • because my anger has turned back
    • from them.[fn]
• 5 I will be like the dew to Israel;
  • he will blossom like the lily plant,
• and he will strike his roots like the trees of Lebanon.
  • 6 His new plant shoots will spread out;
• his splendor will be like the olive tree,
  • and his scent like the trees of Lebanon.
• 7 They will again dwell[fn] in my[fn] shadow;
  • they will grow grain
• and they will blossom like the plant vine;
  • his fame will be like the wine of Lebanon.
• 8 O Ephraim, what have I to do[fn] with idols?
  • I myself have answered and looked after you.[fn]
• I am like a luxuriant cypress;
  • your fruit[fn] comes from me.
• 9 Who is wise that he can understand these things?
  • Who is discerning that he knows them?
• The ways of Yahweh are right,
  • and the righteous walk in them;
    • but transgressors stumble in them.