Hosea Chapter 14

¹O Israel, return unto Jehovah thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.

²Take with you words, and return unto Jehovah: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and accept that which is good: so will we render [as] bullocks [the offering of] our lips.

³Assyria 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.

⁴I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely; for mine anger is turned away from him.

⁵I will be as the dew unto Israel; he shall blossom as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.

⁶His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive-tree, and his smell as Lebanon.

⁷They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive [as] the grain, and blossom as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon.

⁸Ephraim [shall say], What have I to do any more with idol