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The Lord Offers to Forgive Israel

14 [a]Israel, return to Yahweh your Elohim.
    You have stumbled because of your sins.
Return to Yahweh, and say these things to him:
    “Forgive all our sins, and kindly receive us.
        Then we’ll praise you with our lips.
Assyria cannot save us.
    We won’t ride on horses anymore.
        We will never again say
            that the things our hands have made are our gods.
                You love orphans.”

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 14:1 Hosea 14:1–9 in English Bibles is Hosea 14:2–10 in the Hebrew Bible.

Repentance to Bring Blessing

14 [a]Return,(A) Israel, to the Lord your God.
    Your sins(B) have been your downfall!(C)
Take words with you
    and return to the Lord.
Say to him:
    “Forgive(D) all our sins
and receive us graciously,(E)
    that we may offer the fruit of our lips.[b](F)
Assyria cannot save us;(G)
    we will not mount warhorses.(H)
We will never again say ‘Our gods’(I)
    to what our own hands have made,(J)
    for in you the fatherless(K) find compassion.”

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 14:1 In Hebrew texts 14:1-9 is numbered 14:2-10.
  2. Hosea 14:2 Or offer our lips as sacrifices of bulls