Hosea 14

A Plea to Repent

1Israel, return to the Lord your God, # 14:1 Hs 6:1; 10:12; 12:6

for you have stumbled in your iniquity. # 14:1 Hs 4:8; 5:5; 9:7

2Take words of repentance with you # 14:2 Mc 7:18–19

and return to the Lord.

Say to him, “Forgive all our iniquity

and accept what is good,

so that we may repay you

with praise # 14:2 LXX reads with the fruit from our # 14:2 Lit repay the bulls of our lips. # 14:2 Heb 13:15

3Assyria will not save us, # 14:3 Hs 5:13

we will not ride on horses, # 14:3 Is 31:1

and we will no longer proclaim, ‘Our gods! ’ # 14:3 Hs 4:12

to the work of our hands. # 14:3 Hs 8:6; 13:2

For the fatherless receives compassion in you.” # 14:3 Ps 68:5

A Promise of Restoration

4I will heal their apostasy; # 14:4 Is 57:18; Hs 6:1

I will freely love them, # 14:4 Zph 3:17

for my anger will have turned from him. # 14:4 Is 12:1

5I will be like the dew to Israel; # 14:5 Is 26:19

he will blossom like the lily # 14:5 Sg 2:1; Mt 6:28

and take root like the cedars of Lebanon. # 14:5 Is 35:2

6His new branches will spread,

and his splendor will be like the olive tree, # 14:6 Jr 11:16

his fragrance, like the forest of Lebanon. # 14:6 Sg 4:11

7The people will return and live beneath his shade. # 14:7 Ezk 17:23

They will grow grain # 14:7 Hs 2:21–22

and blossom like the vine.

His renown will be like the wine of Lebanon.

8Ephraim, why should I # 14:8 LXX reads he have anything more

to do with idols? # 14:8 Jb 34:32

It is I who answer and watch over him.

I am like a flourishing pine tree; # 14:8 Is 41:19

your fruit comes from me. # 14:8 Ezk 17:13

9Let whoever is wise # 14:9 Ps 107:43; Jr 9:12 understand these things,

and whoever is insightful recognize them.

For the ways of the Lord are right, # 14:9 Ps 111:7–8; Zph 3:5

and the righteous walk in them, # 14:9 Is 26:7

but the rebellious stumble in them. # 14:9 Is 1:28

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Hoshea 14

1 Shomron shall bear guilt;

for she hath rebelled against her Elohim;

they shall fall by the cherev;

their olalim shall be dashed in pieces,

and their women with child shall be ripped open.

2 O Yisroel, return unto Hashem Eloheicha;

for thy downfall hast been thine avon (iniquity).

3 Take devarim (words) with you,

and turn to Hashem;

say unto Him: Take away avon (iniquity),

and receive us graciously

that we may render the sacrifices of our lips.#14:3 MJ 13:15

4 Assyria shall not save us;

we will not ride upon susim;

neither will we say any more to the work of our hands:

Ye are Eloheinu;

for in Thee the yatom (orphan) findeth compassion.

5 I will heal their meshuvah (backsliding);

I will love them freely;

for Mine anger is turned away from him.

6 I will be as the tal (dew) unto Yisroel:

he shall blossom as the lily,

and strike root as Levanon.

7 His branches shall spread,

and his beauty shall be as the zayit (olive tree),

and his hod (splendor) as Levanon.

8 They that dwell under his tzel (shade) shall return;

they shall revive as the dagan, and grow as the gefen;

the remembrance thereof shall be as the yayin of Levanon.

9 Ephrayim shall say, What have I to do any more with atzabim?

It is I who answer and look after him;

I am like an evergreen cypress.

From Me is thy p'ri found.

10 Who is chacham, and he shall have binah of these things?

Prudent, and he shall know them?

For the Darkhei Hashem are right,

and the tzaddikim shall walk in them;

but the poshe'im (transgressors) shall fall therein.

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