14:1 Turn
back,
O
Israel,
unto
Jehovah
thy
God,
For
thou
hast
stumbled
by
thine
iniquity.
14:2 Take
with
you
words,
and
turn
to
Jehovah,
Say
ye
unto
Him:
`Take
away
all
iniquity,
and
give
good,
And
we
do
render
the
fruit
of
our
lips.
14:3 Asshur
doth
not
save
us,
on
a
horse
we
ride
not,
Nor
do
we
say
any
more,
Our
God,
to
the
work
of
our
hands,
For
in
Thee
find
mercy
doth
the
fatherless.'
14:4 I
heal
their
backsliding,
I
love
them
freely,
For
turned
back
hath
Mine
anger
from
him.
14:5 I
am
as
dew
to
Israel,
he
flourisheth
as
a
lily,
And
he
striketh
forth
his
roots
as
Lebanon.
14:6 Go
on
do
his
sucklings,
And
his
beauty
is
as
an
olive,
And
he
hath
fragrance
as
Lebanon.
14:7 Return
do
the
dwellers
under
his
shadow,
They
revive
[as]
corn,
and
flourish
as
a
vine,
His
memorial
[is]
as
wine
of
Lebanon.
14:8 O
Ephraim,
what
to
Me
any
more
with
idols
I--I
afflicted,
and
I
cause
him
to
sing:
`I
[am]
as
a
green
fir-tree,'
From
Me
is
thy
fruit
found.
14:9 Who
[is]
wise,
and
doth
understand
these
Prudent,
and
knoweth
them
For
upright
are
the
ways
of
Jehovah,
And
the
righteous
go
on
in
them,
And
the
transgressors
stumble
therein!