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14 Israel, return to Yahweh your God;
    for you have fallen because of your sin.
Take words with you, and return to Yahweh.
    Tell him, “Forgive all our sins,
    and accept that which is good:
    so we offer our lips like bulls.
Assyria can’t save us.
    We won’t ride on horses;
    neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, ‘Our gods!’
    for in you the fatherless finds mercy.”

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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.