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            <div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.14.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Return, Israel, to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.14.1"><span class="content">Your sins have been your downfall!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.14.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.14.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Take words with you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.14.2"><span class="content">and return to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.14.2"><span class="content">Say to him:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.14.2"><span class="content">&#8220;Forgive all our sins</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.14.2"><span class="content">and receive us graciously,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.14.2"><span class="content">that we may offer the fruit of our lips.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">14:2 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">offer our lips as sacrifices of bulls</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.14.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.14.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Assyria cannot save us;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.14.3"><span class="content">we will not mount warhorses.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.14.3"><span class="content">We will never again say &#8216;Our gods&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.14.3"><span class="content">to what our own hands have made,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.14.3"><span class="content">for in you the fatherless find compassion.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.14.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.14.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;I will heal their waywardness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.14.4"><span class="content">and love them freely,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.14.4"><span class="content">for my anger has turned away from them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.14.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.14.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">I will be like the dew to Israel;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.14.5"><span class="content">he will blossom like a lily.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.14.5"><span class="content">Like a cedar of Lebanon</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.14.5"><span class="content">he will send down his roots;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.14.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.14.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">his young shoots will grow.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.14.6"><span class="content">His splendor will be like an olive tree,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.14.6"><span class="content">his fragrance like a cedar of Lebanon.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.14.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.14.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">People will dwell again in his shade;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.14.7"><span class="content">they will flourish like the grain,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.14.7"><span class="content">they will blossom like the vine&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.14.7"><span class="content">Israel&#8217;s fame will be like the wine of Lebanon.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.14.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.14.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Ephraim, what more have I</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">14:8 </span><span class="ft">Or Hebrew; Septuagint </span><span class="fqa">What more has Ephraim</span></span></span><span class="content"> to do with idols?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.14.8"><span class="content">I will answer him and care for him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.14.8"><span class="content">I am like a flourishing juniper;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.14.8"><span class="content">your fruitfulness comes from me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.14.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.14.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Who is wise? Let them realize these things.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.14.9"><span class="content">Who is discerning? Let them understand.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.14.9"><span class="content">The ways of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> are right;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.14.9"><span class="content">the righteous walk in them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.14.9"><span class="content">but the rebellious stumble in them.</span></span></div>
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