[1] Israel, return to Yahweh your God; for you have fallen by your
iniquity. [2] Take with you words, and return to Yahweh: tell him, Take
away all iniquity, and accept that which is good: so will we render [as]
bulls [the offering of] our lips. [3] Assyria shall not save us; we will
not ride on horses; neither will we say any more to the work of our hands,
[You are] our gods; for in you the fatherless finds mercy. [4] I will heal
their backsliding, I will love them freely; for my anger is turned away
from him. [5] I will be as the dew to Israel; he shall blossom as the lily,
and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. [6] His branches shall spread, and his
beauty shall be as the olive-tree, and his smell as Lebanon. [7] Those who
dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive [as] the grain, and
blossom as the vine: the scent of it shall be as the wine of Lebanon. [8]
Ephraim [shall say], What have I to do any more with idols? I have
answered, and will regard him: I am like a green fir-tree; from me is your
fruit found. [9] Who is wise, that he may understand these things? prudent,
that he may know them? for the ways of Yahweh are right, and the just shall
walk in them; but transgressors shall fall therein.

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