Moff by section HOS 14:1

Hosea 14

14 Come back to your God, O Israel,

for your faults have made you fall.

2 Take words, as you come back to the Eternal,

and say to him:

“All our iniquities forgive,

and grant us now thy favour;

let us bring thee flocks of the fold–

3c for in thee the forlorn finds pity.

3a Assyria never can save us;

we will not take to war-horses for aid,

3b and we will say no more ‘My God’

to what our hands have made.”

4 I will heal them from their hurt of sin,

I will love them freely,

now mine anger has turned from them.

5 I will be like dew to Israel;

he shall blossom like a lily,

and strike roots down like a poplar;

6 his branches shall spread out,

his leaves fresh as an olive’s,

his scent like the scent of incense.

7 Once more shall they live underneath my shadow,

well-watered like a garden,

flourishing like a vine,

and fragrant as Lebânon’s wine.

8 What more has Ephraim to do with idols?

’Twas I who humbled him,

’tis I who will protect him.

I am like a cypress evergreen:

his welfare ever comes from me.

9 [[Mark this, you who are wise,

note this, you men of sense.

The Eternal deals justly with all;

the upright fare well under him,

but sinners fall.]]