Hosea 14:3-5

New Catholic Bible

³ Prepare in advance what you want to say,
    and return to the Lord.
Say to him, “Take away all guilt
    and give us what is good,
so that we may present as offerings
    the bullocks from our stalls.
⁴ Assyria will not save us,
    nor shall we mount horses of war.
We shall never again say ‘Our god’
    to the work of our hands,
    for in you the fatherless find compassion.”
⁵ I will forgive them for their apostasy,
    and I will love them freely,
    for my wrath is turned away from them.