Hosea 14:2-8

New International Version

²Take words with you
    and return to the Lord.
Say to him:
    “Forgive^(A) all our sins
and receive us graciously,^(B)
    that we may offer the fruit of our lips.^[a]^(C)
³Assyria cannot save us;^(D)
    we will not mount warhorses.^(E)
We will never again say ‘Our gods’^(F)
    to what our own hands have made,^(G)
    for in you the fatherless^(H) find compassion.”

⁴“I will heal^(I) their waywardness^(J)
    and love them freely,^(K)
    for my anger has turned away^(L) from them.
⁵I will be like the dew^(M) to Israel;
    he will blossom like a lily.^(N)
Like a cedar of Lebanon^(O)
    he will send down his roots;^(P)
⁶    his young shoots will grow.
His splendor will be like an olive tree,^(Q)
    his fragrance like a cedar of Lebanon.^(R)
⁷People will dwell again in his shade;^(S)
    they will flourish like the grain,
they will blossom^(T) like the vine—
    Israel’s fame will be like the wine^(U) of Lebanon.^(V)
⁸Ephraim, what more have I^[b] to do with idols?^(W)
    I will answer him and care for him.
I am like a flourishing juniper;^(X)
    your fruitfulness comes from me.”

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Footnotes

Hosea 14:2 Or offer our lips as sacrifices of bulls
Hosea 14:8 Or Hebrew; Septuagint What more has Ephraim

Numbers 23:19

New International Version

¹⁹God is not human,^(A) that he should lie,^(B)
not a human being, that he should change his mind.^(C)
Does he speak and then not act?
Does he promise^(D) and not fulfill?