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Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for your sin has been your downfall! |
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Return to the LORD and repent! Say to him: "Completely forgive our iniquity; accept our penitential prayer, that we may offer the praise of our lips as sacrificial bulls. |
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Assyria cannot save us; we will not ride warhorses. We will never again say, 'Our gods' to what our own hands have made. For only you will show compassion to Orphan Israel!" |
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"I will heal their waywardness and love them freely, for my anger will turn away from them. |
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I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like a lily, he will send down his roots like a cedar of Lebanon. |
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His young shoots will grow; his splendor will be like an olive tree, his fragrance like a cedar of Lebanon. |
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People will reside again in his shade; they will plant and harvest grain in abundance. They will blossom like a vine, and his fame will be like the wine from Lebanon. |
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O Ephraim, I do not want to have anything to do with idols anymore! I will answer him and care for him. I am like a luxuriant cypress tree; your fruitfulness comes from me! |
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Who is wise? Let him discern these things! Who is discerning? Let him understand them! For the ways of the LORD are right; the godly walk in them, but in them the rebellious stumble. |
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