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shall not save us;</div><div class="po2">We will not ride upon horses;</div><div class="po2">Neither will we call any more the work of our hands our gods;</div><div class="po2">For in Thee the fatherless findeth mercy.’</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/14-4.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>I will heal their backsliding,</div><div class="po2">I will love them freely;</div><div class="po2">For Mine anger is turned away from him.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/14-5.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>I will be as the dew unto Israel;</div><div class="po2">He shall blossom as the lily,</div><div class="po2">And cast forth his roots as Lebanon.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/14-6.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>His branches shall spread,</div><div class="po2">And his beauty shall be as the olive-tree, And his fragrance as Lebanon.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/14-7.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>They that dwell under his shadow shall again</div><div class="po2">Make corn to grow,</div><div class="po2">And shall blossom as the vine;</div><div class="po2">The scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/14-8.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Ephraim [shall say]:</div><div class="po2">‘What have I to do any more with idols?’</div><div class="po2">As for Me, I respond and look on him;</div><div class="po2">I am like a leafy cypress-tree;</div><div class="po2">From Me is thy fruit found.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/14-9.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Whoso is wise, let him understand these things,</div><div class="po2">Whoso is prudent, let him know them.</div><div class="po2">For the ways of the LORD are right,</div><div class="po2">And the just do walk in them;</div><div class="po2">But transgressors do stumble therein.</div></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">THE HOLY 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