Hosea 14:1-3

New International Reader's Version

14 Israel, return to the Lord your God.
    Your sins have destroyed you!
² Tell the Lord you are turning away from your sins.
    Return to him.
Say to him,
    “Forgive us for all our sins.
Please be kind to us.
    Welcome us back to you.
    Then our lips will offer you our praise.
³ Assyria can’t save us.
    We won’t trust in our war horses.
Our own hands have made statues of gods.
    But we will never call them our gods again.
We are like children whose fathers have died.
    But you show us your tender love.”