Hosea 14
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Hosea

A Call to Repentance

Jeremiah 3:11–25; Zechariah 1:1–6

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.+

A Promise of God’s Blessing

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 idols? I have answered, and will regard him: I am like a green fir-tree; from me is thy fruit found.+ 9Who is wise, that he may understand these things? prudent, that he may know them? for the ways of Jehovah are right, and the just shall walk in them; but transgressors shall fall therein.+

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