Hosea 14

1“Turn back, O Israel, to your God YHWH, || For you have stumbled by your iniquity.

2Take words with you, and turn to YHWH, || Say to Him, Take away all iniquity, and give good, || And we render the fruit of our lips.

3Asshur does not save us, we do not ride on a horse, || Nor do we say anymore, Our god, to the work of our hands, || For in You the fatherless find mercy.

4I heal their backsliding, I love them freely, || For My anger has turned back from him.

5I am as dew to Israel, he flourishes as a lily, || And he strikes forth his roots as Lebanon.

6His shoots go on, || And his splendor is as an olive, || And he has fragrance as Lebanon.

7The dwellers return under his shadow, || They revive [as] grain, and flourish as a vine, || His memorial [is] as wine of Lebanon.

8O Ephraim, what have I anymore to do with idols? I have answered, and I look after him: I [am] as a green fir-tree, || Your fruit is found from Me.

9Who [is] wise, and understands these? Prudent, and knows them? For upright are the ways of YHWH, || And the righteous go on in them, || And the transgressors stumble therein!”