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title="Hosea 13">◄</a> Hosea 14 <a href="../joel/1.htm" title="Joel 1">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/hosea/14.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Healing for the Repentant</p><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/14-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a>Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God,</p><p class="line2">for your sins have brought you down.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/14-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Bring your confessions, and return to the LORD.</p><p class="line2">Say to him,</p><p class="line1">“Forgive all our sins and graciously receive us,</p><p class="line2">so that we may offer you our praises.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a></p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/14-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Assyria cannot save us,</p><p class="line2">nor can our warhorses.</p><p class="line1">Never again will we say to the idols we have made,</p><p class="line2">‘You are our gods.’</p><p class="line1">No, in you alone</p><p class="line2">do the orphans find mercy.”</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/14-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>The LORD says,</p><p class="line1">“Then I will heal you of your faithlessness;</p><p class="line2">my love will know no bounds,</p><p class="line2">for my anger will be gone forever.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/14-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>I will be to Israel</p><p class="line2">like a refreshing dew from heaven.</p><p class="line1">Israel will blossom like the lily;</p><p class="line2">it will send roots deep into the soil</p><p class="line2">like the cedars in Lebanon.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/14-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Its branches will spread out like beautiful olive trees,</p><p class="line2">as fragrant as the cedars of Lebanon.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/14-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>My people will again live under my shade.</p><p class="line2">They will flourish like grain and blossom like grapevines.</p><p class="line2">They will be as fragrant as the wines of Lebanon.</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/14-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>“O Israel,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">c</span></a> stay away from idols!</p><p class="line2">I am the one who answers your prayers and cares for you.</p><p class="line1">I am like a tree that is always green;</p><p class="line2">all your fruit comes from me.”</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/14-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Let those who are wise understand these things.</p><p class="line2">Let those with discernment listen carefully.</p><p class="line1">The paths of the LORD are true and right,</p><p class="line2">and righteous people live by walking in them.</p><p class="line2">But in those paths sinners stumble and fall.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">14:1 </span><span class="ft">Verses 14:1-9 are numbered 14:2-10 in Hebrew text.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">14:2 </span><span class="ft">As in Greek and Syriac versions, which read </span><span class="it">may repay the fruit of our lips;</span><span class="ft"> Hebrew reads </span><span class="it">may repay the bulls of our lips.</span><br><span class="fn">c</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">14:8 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">Ephraim,</span><span class="ft"> referring to the northern kingdom of Israel.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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