Hosea 14

MLV(i) 1 O Israel, return to Jehovah your God, for you have fallen by your iniquity. 2 Take with you* words and return to Jehovah. Say to him, Take away all iniquity and accept what is good. So we will render as bullocks the offering of our lips. 3 Assyria will not save us. We will not ride upon horses, nor will we say any more to the work of our hands, Our gods. For in you the fatherless finds mercy.
4 I will heal their backsliding. I will love them freely. For my anger is turned away from him. 5 I will be as the dew to Israel. He will blossom as the lily and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. 6 His offshoots will spread and his beauty will be as the olive tree and his smell as Lebanon.
7 Those who dwell under his shadow will return. They will revive as the grain and blossom as the vine. The scent of it will be as the wine of Lebanon. 8 Ephraim will say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have answered and will regard him. I am like a green fir tree. From me, your fruit is found.
9 Who is wise, that he may understand these things, prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Jehovah are right and the just will walk in them. But transgressors will fall in them.