Hosea 14  Christian Standard Bible

14 Israel, return to the Lord your God,^(A)
for you have stumbled in your iniquity.^(B)
2 Take words of repentance with you^(C)
and return to the Lord.
Say to him, “Forgive all our iniquity
and accept what is good,
so that we may repay you
with praise^[a] from our^[b] lips.^(D)
3 Assyria will not save us,^(E)
we will not ride on horses,^(F)
and we will no longer proclaim, ‘Our gods!’ ^(G)
to the work of our hands.^(H)
For the fatherless receives compassion in you.”^(I)

⁴ I will heal their apostasy;^(J)
I will freely love them,^(K)
for my anger will have turned from him.^(L)
5 I will be like the dew to Israel;^(M)
he will blossom like the lily^(N)
and take root like the cedars of Lebanon.^(O)
6 His new branches will spread,
and his splendor will be like the olive tree,^(P)
his fragrance, like the forest of Lebanon.^(Q)
7 The people will return and live beneath his shade.^(R)
They will grow grain^(S)
and blossom like the vine.
His renown will be like the wine of Lebanon.