Hosea 14

A Plea to Repent

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Israel, return to Yahweh your God,^(A)
for you have stumbled in your sin.^(B)

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Take words of repentance with you^(C)
and return to the Lord.
Say to Him: “Forgive all our sin
and accept what is good,
so that we may repay You
with praise^(a) from our^(b) lips.^(D)

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Assyria will not save us,^(E)
we will not ride on horses,^(F)
and we will no longer proclaim, ‘Our gods!’^(G)
to the work of our hands.^(H)
For the fatherless receives compassion in You.”^(I)

A Promise of Restoration

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I will heal their apostasy;^(J)
I will freely love them,^(K)
for My anger will have turned from him.^(L)

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I will be like the dew to Israel;^(M)
he will blossom like the lily^(N)
and take root like the cedars of Lebanon.^(O)

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His new branches will spread,
and his splendor will be like the olive tree,^(P)
his fragrance, like the forest of Lebanon.^(Q)

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The people will return and live beneath his shade.^(R)
They will grow grain^(S)
and blossom like the vine.
His renown will be like the wine of Lebanon.

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Ephraim, why should I^(c) have anything more
to do with idols?^(T)
It is I who answer and watch over him.
I am like a flourishing pine tree;^(U)
your fruit comes from Me.^(V)

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Let whoever is wise^(W) understand these things,
and whoever is insightful recognize them.
For the ways of the Lord are right,^(X)
and the righteous walk in them,^(Y)
but the rebellious stumble in them.^(Z)

Footnotes:

a. Hosea 14:2: LXX reads with the fruit

b. Hosea 14:2: Lit repay the bulls of our

c. Hosea 14:8: LXX reads he

Cross references:

A. Hosea 14:1: Hosea 6:1; Hosea 10:12; Hosea 12:6

B. Hosea 14:1: Hosea 4:8; Hosea 5:5; Hosea 9:7

C. Hosea 14:2: Micah 7:18-19

D. Hosea 14:2: Hebrews 13:15

E. Hosea 14:3: Hosea 5:13

F. Hosea 14:3: Isaiah 31:1

G. Hosea 14:3: Hosea 4:12

H. Hosea 14:3: Hosea 8:6; Hosea 13:2

I. Hosea 14:3: Psalm 68:5

J. Hosea 14:4: Isaiah 57:18

K. Hosea 14:4: Zephaniah 3:17

L. Hosea 14:4: Isaiah 12:1

M. Hosea 14:5: Isaiah 26:19

N. Hosea 14:5: Matthew 6:28

O. Hosea 14:5: Isaiah 35:2

P. Hosea 14:6: Jeremiah 11:16

Q. Hosea 14:6: Song of Solomon 4:11

R. Hosea 14:7: Ezekiel 17:23

S. Hosea 14:7: Hosea 2:21-22

T. Hosea 14:8: Job 34:32

U. Hosea 14:8: Isaiah 41:19

V. Hosea 14:8: Ezekiel 17:13

W. Hosea 14:9: Psalm 107:43; Jeremiah 9:12

X. Hosea 14:9: Psalm 111:7-8

Y. Hosea 14:9: Isaiah 26:7

Z. Hosea 14:9: Isaiah 1:28