| Chapter 14 |
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Turn back, O Israel, unto Jehovah thy God, For thou hast stumbled by thine iniquity. |
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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. |
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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.` |
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I heal their backsliding, I love them freely, For turned back hath Mine anger from him. |
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I am as dew to Israel, he flourisheth as a lily, And he striketh forth his roots as Lebanon. |
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Go on do his sucklings, And his beauty is as an olive, And he hath fragrance as Lebanon. |
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Return do the dwellers under his shadow, They revive as corn, and flourish as a vine, His memorial is as wine of Lebanon. |
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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. |
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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! |
