57 lines
1.3 KiB
Markdown
57 lines
1.3 KiB
Markdown
A Plea to Repent
|
|
|
|
# Chapter 14
|
|
1. Israel, return to the Lord your God,
|
|
for you have stumbled in your iniquity.
|
|
|
|
2. Take words of repentance with you
|
|
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 from our lips.
|
|
|
|
3. Assyria will not save us,
|
|
we will not ride on horses,
|
|
and we will no longer proclaim, 'Our gods!'
|
|
to the work of our hands.
|
|
For the fatherless receives compassion in you."
|
|
A Promise of Restoration
|
|
|
|
|
|
4. I will heal their apostasy;
|
|
I will freely love them,
|
|
for my anger will have turned from him.
|
|
|
|
5. I will be like the dew to Israel;
|
|
he will blossom like the lily
|
|
and take root like the cedars of Lebanon.
|
|
|
|
6. His new branches will spread,
|
|
and his splendor will be like the olive tree,
|
|
his fragrance, like the forest of Lebanon.
|
|
|
|
7. The people will return and live beneath his shade.
|
|
They will grow grain
|
|
and blossom like the vine.
|
|
His renown will be like the wine of Lebanon.
|
|
|
|
8. Ephraim, why should I have anything more
|
|
to do with idols?
|
|
It is I who answer and watch over him.
|
|
I am like a flourishing pine tree;
|
|
your fruit comes from me.
|
|
|
|
9. Let whoever is wise understand these things,
|
|
and whoever is insightful recognize them.
|
|
|
|
For the ways of the Lord are right,
|
|
and the righteous walk in them,
|
|
but the rebellious stumble in them.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|