Hos 14 | AB | STEP | Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God; for the people have fallen through your iniquities.

Hosea 14

1 Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God; for the people have fallen through your iniquities. 2 Take with you words, and turn to the Lord your God. Speak to Him, that you may not receive the reward of unrighteousness, but that you may receive good things; and we will render in return the fruit of our lips. 3 Assyria shall never save us; we will not mount on horseback; we will no longer say to the works of our hands, Our gods. He who is in you shall pity the orphan. 4 I will restore their dwellings, I will love them truly: for he has turned away My wrath from him. 5 I will be as dew to Israel: he shall bloom as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. 6 His branches shall spread, and he shall be as a fruitful olive, and his smell shall be as the smell of Lebanon. 7 They shall return, and dwell under his shadow: they shall live and be satisfied with grain, and he shall flower like a vine. His memorial shall be to Ephraim as the wine of Lebanon. 8 What has he to do anymore with idols? I have afflicted him, and I will strengthen him. I am as a leafy juniper tree. From Me is your fruit found. 9 Who is wise, and will understand these things? Or prudent, and will know them? For the ways of the Lord are straight, and the righteous shall walk in them; but the ungodly shall fall therein.