Hosea 14:3-5

International Standard Version

³Assyria won’t save us;
    we won’t be riding on horses,
Nor will we be saying anymore to the work of our hands,
    “You are^[a] our God.”
        Indeed, in you the orphan finds mercy.’

⁴“I will correct their apostasy,
    loving them freely,
        since my anger will have turned away from them.^[b]
⁵I will be like the dew to Israel;
    Israel^[c] will blossom like a lily,
        growing roots like the cedars of^[d] Lebanon.