Hosea14

Hosea 14 opens with an urgent call for Israel to return to the LORD, confessing their iniquity and forsaking reliance on foreign powers and idols. They are to offer words of repentance, seeking God's gracious reception. In response, God promises healing, free love, and restoration, causing Israel to flourish like a well-watered plant. The chapter concludes with Ephraim's renunciation of idols and an admonition for the wise to understand God's righteous ways.

A Final Call to Repentance

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Turn back, O Israel, unto Jehovah thy God, For thou hast stumbled by thine iniquity.
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Take with you words, and turn to Jehovah, Say ye unto Him: `Take away all iniquity, and give good, And we do render the fruit of our lips.
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Asshur doth not save us, on a horse we ride not, Nor do we say any more, Our God, to the work of our hands, For in Thee find mercy doth the fatherless.'

God Promises Healing and Restoration

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I heal their backsliding, I love them freely, For turned back hath Mine anger from him.
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I am as dew to Israel, he flourisheth as a lily, And he striketh forth his roots as Lebanon.
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Go on do his sucklings, And his beauty is as an olive, And he hath fragrance as Lebanon.
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Return do the dwellers under his shadow, They revive as corn, and flourish as a vine, His memorial is as wine of Lebanon.

Ephraim Renounces Idolatry

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O Ephraim, what to Me any more with idols? I--I afflicted, and I cause him to sing: `I am as a green fir-tree,' From Me is thy fruit found.

A Final Word of Wisdom

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Who is wise, and doth understand these? Prudent, and knoweth them? For upright are the ways of Jehovah, And the righteous go on in them, And the transgressors stumble therein!
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