Hosea 14:2-4

New International Version - UK

²Take words with you
    and return to the Lord.
Say to him:
    ‘Forgive all our sins
and receive us graciously,
    that we may offer the fruit of our lips.^[a]
³Assyria cannot save us;
    we will not mount war-horses.
We will never again say “Our gods”
    to what our own hands have made,
    for in you the fatherless find compassion.’

⁴‘I will heal their waywardness
and love them freely,
for my anger has turned away from them.