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A Plea for Repentance

14 Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God,
    for you have stumbled because of your iniquity.
Take words with you
    and return to the Lord.
Say to Him,
    “Take away all iniquity,
and accept that which is good;
    and we will offer the fruit[a] of our lips!
Assyria will not save us,
    we will not ride on horses.
We will no longer say, ‘Our God,’
    to the work of our hands.
    In You the orphan finds mercy.”

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 14:2 Gk. Syr.; Heb. bulls.

14 O Israel, return unto the Lord thy God, for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.

Take with you words, and turn to the Lord; say unto Him, “Take away all iniquity and receive us graciously, so will we offer the calves of our lips.

Assyria 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.”

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