Hosea 14:1-5

Repentance to Bring Blessing 1In Hebrew texts 14:1-9 is numbered 14:2-10. Return, Israel, to the LORD your God. Your sins have been your downfall!

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. Or offer our lips as sacrifices of bulls

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.”

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

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;