1. Hosea 14:1-6
(ESV)
Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God, for you have stumbled because of your iniquity.
Take with you words and return to the Lord;
say to him, “Take away all iniquity;
accept what is good, and we will pay with bulls the vows of our lips.
Assyria shall not save us; we will not ride on horses;
and we will say no more, ‘Our God,’ to the work of our hands.
In you the orphan finds mercy.”
I will heal their apostasy; I will love them freely, for my anger has turned from them.
I will be like the dew to Israel; he shall blossom like the lily; he shall take root like the trees of Lebanon;
his shoots shall spread out; his beauty shall be like the olive, and his fragrance like Lebanon.
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