Opening the chapter…
Israel, return to God your God, for you have fallen because of your iniquity.
Take with you words and return to God. Say to him, “Take away all our iniquity and accept what is good, so that we may offer to you the fruit of our lips.
Assyria will not save us; we will not ride on horses to war. Neither will we say anymore to the work of our hands, 'You are our gods,' for in you the fatherless person finds compassion.”
“I will heal their turning away; I will love them freely, for my anger has turned away from him.
I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like the lily and take root like a cedar in Lebanon.
His branches will spread out; his beauty will be like the olive trees, and his fragrance like the cedars in Lebanon.
The people who live in his shade will return; they will revive like grain and blossom like vines. His fame will be like the wine of Lebanon.
Ephraim, what more have I to do with idols? I will answer him and care for him. I am like a cypress whose leaves are always green; from me comes your fruit.”
Who is wise that he may understand these things? Who understands these things so that he may know them? For the ways of God are right, and the righteous will walk in them, but the rebellious will stumble in them.
Source
unlocked Literal Bible. Copyright © 2017 Door43 World Missions Community. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Source: eBible.org (engULB). Changes: reformatted for display (USFM to verses); no wording changed. Audio and other adaptations are shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Editorial rendering: in this app the divine name "Yahweh" is displayed and read aloud as "God" (and "Yahweh God" as "God"). The stored text and the imported source are unchanged; this is a display-layer substitution, not part of the translation.
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