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Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God. Your sins have been your downfall! |
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Take 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. |
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Assyria cannot save us; we will not mount war-horses. We will never again say`Our gods' to what our own hands have made, for in you the fatherless find compassion." |
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"I will heal their waywardness and love them freely, for my anger has turned away from them. |
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I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like a lily. Like a cedar of Lebanon he will send down his roots; |
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his young shoots will grow. His splendour will be like an olive tree, his fragrance like a cedar of Lebanon. |
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Men will dwell again in his shade. He will flourish like the corn. He will blossom like a vine, and his fame will be like the wine from Lebanon. |
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O Ephraim, what more have I to do with idols? I will answer him and care for him. I am like a green pine tree; your fruitfulness comes from me." |
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Who is wise? He will realise these things. Who is discerning? He will understand them. The ways of the LORD are right; the righteous walk in them, but the rebellious stumble in them. |
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