Keraia
Minor Prophets

Hosea 14

A Call to Repentance

1Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God,

for you have stumbled by your iniquity.

1So return, O Israel, to YHWH your God! For you have stumbled by your iniquity.

2Bring your confessions

and return to the LORD.

Say to Him: “Take away all our iniquity

and receive us graciously,

that we may present

the fruit of our lips.

2Take with you words, and return to YHWH. Say to Him: “Lift away all iniquity, and receive what is good, and we offer the fruit of our lips.

3Assyria will not save us,

nor will we ride on horses.

We will never again say, ‘Our gods!’

to the work of our own hands.

For in You the fatherless find compassion.”

3Assyria cannot save us; we will not ride on horses, and we will not say anymore, ‘Our gods’ to the work of our hands. For in You the fatherless find compassion.”

A Promise of God’s Blessing

4I will heal their apostasy;

I will freely love them,

for My anger has turned away from them.

4I will heal their backsliding, I will love them willingly; for My anger has turned back from him.

5I will be like the dew to Israel;

he will blossom like the lily

and take root like the cedars of Lebanon.

5I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like the lily, and he will strike forth his roots like Lebanon.

6His shoots will sprout,

and his splendor will be like the olive tree,

his fragrance like the cedars of Lebanon.

6His branches will go forth, and his beauty will be like the olive tree, and the fragrance unto him like Lebanon.

7They will return and dwell in his shade;

they will grow grain and blossom like the vine.

His renown will be like the wine of Lebanon.

7Those dwelling in his shade will return; they will revive like the grain and blossom like the vine; his memorial is as wine of Lebanon.

8O Ephraim, what have I to do

anymore with idols?

It is I who answer and watch over him.

I am like a flourishing cypress;

your fruit comes from Me.

8O Ephraim, what is unto me anymore with idols? I have answered and have watched over him. I am luxuriant like a cypress; your fruit is found in Me.

9Whoever is wise, let him understand these things;

whoever is discerning, let him know them.

For the ways of the LORD are right,

and the righteous walk in them

but the rebellious stumble in them.

9Who is wise? Let him understand these things. Who is understanding? Let him know them. For straight are the ways of YHWH, and the righteous walk in them, and transgressors stumble in them.