Hosea 14:1-4
Living Bible
14 O Israel, return to the Lord, your God, for you have been crushed by your sins. 2 Bring your petition. Come to the Lord and say, “O Lord, take away our sins; be gracious to us and receive us, and we will offer you the sacrifice of praise. 3 Assyria cannot save us, nor can our strength in battle; never again will we call the idols we have made ‘our gods’; for in you alone, O Lord, the fatherless find mercy.”
4 “Then I will cure you of idolatry and faithlessness, and my love will know no bounds, for my anger will be forever gone!
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Hosea 14:1-4
Lexham English Bible
Return to Yahweh
14 Return to Yahweh your God, O Israel,
for you have stumbled because of your sin.
2 Take words with you,
and return to Yahweh.
Say to him,
“Take away all guilt;
accept good, and we will offer
the fruit[a] of our lips.
3 Assyria will not save us;
we will not ride on horses,[b]
and we will say no more, “Our God,”
to the work of our hands
because in you the fatherless child finds mercy.
4 I will heal their disloyalty;[c]
I will love them freely
because my anger has turned back
from them.[d]
Footnotes
- Hosea 14:2 Hebrew uncertain
- Hosea 14:3 Hebrew “horse”
- Hosea 14:4 Or “backsliding”
- Hosea 14:4 Hebrew “him”
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