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Take with you words and return to the Lord. Say to Him, Take away all our iniquity; accept what is good and receive us graciously; so will we render [our thanks] as bullocks [to be sacrificed] and pay the confession of our lips.(A)

Assyria shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses, neither will we say any more to the work of our hands [idols], You are our gods. For in You [O Lord] the fatherless find love, pity, and mercy.

I will heal their faithlessness; I will love them freely, for My anger is turned away from [Israel].

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Take words with you
    and return to the Lord.
Say to him:
    “Forgive(A) all our sins
and receive us graciously,(B)
    that we may offer the fruit of our lips.[a](C)
Assyria cannot save us;(D)
    we will not mount warhorses.(E)
We will never again say ‘Our gods’(F)
    to what our own hands have made,(G)
    for in you the fatherless(H) find compassion.”

“I will heal(I) their waywardness(J)
    and love them freely,(K)
    for my anger has turned away(L) from them.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 14:2 Or offer our lips as sacrifices of bulls