Hosea Chapter Fourteen

1    O ISRAEL, return unto the LORD thy God;  for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.

2    Take with you words, and turn to the LORD:  say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously:
    so will we render the calves of our lips.

3    Asshur 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.


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

5    I will be as the dew unto Israel:  he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his root as Lebanon.

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

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

8    Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols?  I have heard him, and observed him:  I am like a green 
    fir tree.  From me is thy fruit found.

9    Who is wise, and he shall understand these things?  prudent, and he shall know them?  for the ways of the 
    LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them:  but the transgressors shall fall therein.

    Hosea Chapter Fourteen - KJV