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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Hosea 14 Smith's Literal Translation</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/hosea/14.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/hosea/14-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">SLT</a> > Hosea 14</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../hosea/13.htm" 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">Smith's Literal Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/hosea/14-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">A Call to Repentance<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../jeremiah/3.htm#11">Jeremiah 3:11–25</a>; <a href ="../zechariah/1.htm">Zechariah 1:1–6</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/14-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Turn back, O Israel, even to Jehovah thy God, for thou wert weak in thine iniquity.<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/14-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Take with you words and turn back to Jehovah: say to him, Thou wilt take away all iniquity, and take good: and we will requite the fruits of our lips.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/14-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Assur will not save us; we will not ride upon a horse, and we will no more say, Our God, to the work of our hands, for in thee the orphan shall be compassionated.<p> <A name="5"></a><p class="hdg">A Promise of God’s Blessing<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/14-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>I will heal their turning away, I loved them largely: for mine anger turned away from him.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/14-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>I will be as the dew to Israel: he shall blossom as the lily and strike his roots as Lebanon.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/14-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>His sprouts shall go, and his strength shall be as the olive tree, and the odor to him as Lebanon.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/14-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>They sitting in his shadow shall turn back; they shall live upon the grain, and they shall blossom as the vine: his remembrance as the wine of Lebanon.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/14-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Ephraim: What to me yet to images? I humbled, and I will regard him: I as the green cypress From me thy fruit was found.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/14-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Who being wise, and he shall understand these things? and knowing, and he shall know them? for the ways of Jehovah are straight, and the just shall go in them: and they transgressing shall be weak in them.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally From The Original Tongues by Julia E. 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