1So return, O Israel, to YHWH your God! For you have stumbled by your iniquity.
2Take with you⁺ words, and return to YHWH. Say to Him: “Lift away all iniquity, and receive what is good, and we offer the fruit of our lips.
3Assyria cannot save us; we will not ride on horses, and we will not say anymore, ‘Our gods’ to the work of our hands. For in You the fatherless find compassion.”
4I will heal their backsliding, I will love them willingly; for My anger has turned back from him.
5I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like the lily, and he will strike forth his roots like Lebanon.
6His branches will go forth, and his beauty will be like the olive tree, and the fragrance unto him like Lebanon.
7Those dwelling in his shade will return; they will revive like the grain and blossom like the vine; his memorial [is] as wine of Lebanon.
8O Ephraim, what [is] unto me anymore with idols? I have answered and have watched over him. I [am] luxuriant like a cypress; your fruit is found in Me.
9Who [is] wise? Let him understand these [things]. [Who is] understanding? Let him know them. For straight [are] the ways of YHWH, and the righteous walk in them, and transgressors stumble in them.
2Take with you⁺ words, and return to YHWH. Say to Him: “Lift away all iniquity, and receive what is good, and we offer the fruit of our lips.
3Assyria cannot save us; we will not ride on horses, and we will not say anymore, ‘Our gods’ to the work of our hands. For in You the fatherless find compassion.”
4I will heal their backsliding, I will love them willingly; for My anger has turned back from him.
5I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like the lily, and he will strike forth his roots like Lebanon.
6His branches will go forth, and his beauty will be like the olive tree, and the fragrance unto him like Lebanon.
7Those dwelling in his shade will return; they will revive like the grain and blossom like the vine; his memorial [is] as wine of Lebanon.
8O Ephraim, what [is] unto me anymore with idols? I have answered and have watched over him. I [am] luxuriant like a cypress; your fruit is found in Me.
9Who [is] wise? Let him understand these [things]. [Who is] understanding? Let him know them. For straight [are] the ways of YHWH, and the righteous walk in them, and transgressors stumble in them.
