1 Return, Israel, to the LORD your God. Your sins have been your downfall!2 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. [^2]3 Assyria 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.5 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;6 his young shoots will grow. His splendor will be like an olive tree, his fragrance like a cedar of Lebanon.7 People will dwell again in his shade; they will flourish like the grain, they will blossom like the vine — Israel's fame will be like the wine of Lebanon.8 Ephraim, what more have I "to do with idols? I will answer him and care for him. I am like a flourishing juniper; your fruitfulness comes from me."9 Who is wise? Let them realize these things. Who is discerning? Let them understand. The ways of the LORD are right; the righteous walk in them, but the rebellious stumble in them.
1 [Pereat Samaria, quoniam ad amaritudinem concitavit Deum suum !in gladio pereant,parvuli eorum elidantur,et ft ejus discindantur !]2 [Convertere, Isral, ad Dominum Deum tuum,quoniam corruisti in iniquitate tua.3 Tollite vobiscum verba,et convertimini ad Dominum ; et dicite ei :Omnem aufer iniquitatem, accipe bonum,et reddemus vitulos labiorum nostrorum.4 Assur non salvabit nos :super equum non ascendemus,nec dicemus ultra, Dii nostri opera manuum nostrarum :quia ejus, qui in te est, misereberis pupilli.5 Sanabo contritiones eorum ;diligam eos spontanee :quia aversus est furor meus ab eis.6 Ero quasi ros ;Isral germinabit sicut lilium,et erumpet radix ejus ut Libani.7 Ibunt rami ejus,et erit quasi oliva gloria ejus,et odor ejus ut Libani.8 Convertentur sedentes in umbra ejus ;vivent tritico, et germinabunt quasi vinea ;memoriale ejus sicut vinum Libani.9 Ephraim, quid mihi ultra idola ?Ego exaudiam, et dirigam eum ego ut abietem virentem ;ex me fructus tuus inventus est.10 Quis sapiens, et intelliget ista ? intelligens, et sciet hc ?quia rect vi Domini,et justi ambulabunt in eis ;prvaricatores vero corruent in eis.]