Hosea 14 :: New International Version (NIV)

Repentance to Bring Blessing

Hos 14:1Return, Israel, to the LORD your God. Your sins have been your downfall!

Hos 14:2Take words with you and return to the LORD. Say to him: “Forgive all our sins and receive us graciously, that we may offer the fruit of our lips.[fn]

Hos 14:3

Hos 14:3Assyria cannot save us; we will not mount warhorses. We will never again say ‘Our gods’ to what our own hands have made, for in you the fatherless find compassion.”

Hos 14:4

Hos 14:4“I will heal their waywardness and love them freely, for my anger has turned away from them.

Hos 14:5

Hos 14:5I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like a lily. Like a cedar of Lebanon he will send down his roots;

Hos 14:6

Hos 14:6his young shoots will grow. His splendor will be like an olive tree, his fragrance like a cedar of Lebanon.

Hos 14:7

Hos 14:7People will dwell again in his shade; they will flourish like the grain, they will blossom like the vine— Israel’s fame will be like the wine of Lebanon.

Hos 14:8

Hos 14:8Ephraim, what more have I[fn] to do with idols? I will answer him and care for him. I am like a flourishing juniper; your fruitfulness comes from me.”

Hos 14:9

Hos 14:9Who is wise? Let them realize these things. Who is discerning? Let them understand. The ways of the LORD are right; the righteous walk in them, but the rebellious stumble in them.

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NIV Footnotes

(14:2)

Or offer our lips as sacrifices of bulls

(14:8)

Or Hebrew; Septuagint What more has Ephraim

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