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Assyria will not save us;
    we will not ride on horses,[a]
and we will say no more, “Our God,”
    to the work of our hands
    because in you the fatherless child finds mercy.
I will heal their disloyalty;[b]
    I will love them freely
    because my anger has turned back
        from them.[c]
I will be like the dew to Israel;
    he will blossom like the lily plant,
and he will strike his roots like the trees of Lebanon.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 14:3 Hebrew “horse”
  2. Hosea 14:4 Or “backsliding”
  3. Hosea 14:4 Hebrew “him”