The Prophecy of Osee, Chapter 1

1   The word of the Lord, that came to Osee the son of Beeri,
    in the days of Ozias, Joathan, Achaz, and Ezechias kings
    of Juda, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joas king
    of Israel.
2   The beginning of the Lord's speaking by Osse: and the Lord
    said to Osee: Go, take thee a wife of fornications, and
    have of her children of fornications: for the land by
    fornication shall depart from the Lord.
3   So he went, and took Gomer the daughter of Debelaim: and
    she conceived and bore him a son.
4   And the Lord said to him: Call his name Jezrahel: for yet
    a little while, and I will visit the blood of Jezrahel
    upon the house of Jehu, and I will cause to cease the
    kingdom of the house of Israel.
5   And in that day I will break in pieces the bow of Israel
    in the valley of Jezrahel.
6   And she conceived again, and bore a daughter, and he said
    to him: Call her name, Without mercy: for I will not add
    any more to have mercy on the house of Israel, but I will
    utterly forget them.
7   And I will have mercy on the house of Juda, and I will
    save them by the Lord their God: and Iwill not save them
    by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, nor by horses, nor by
    horsemen.
8   And she weaned her that was called Without mercy. And she
    conceived, and bore a son.
9   And he said: Call his name, Not my people: for you are not
    my people, and I will not be yours.
10  And the number of the children of Israel shall be as the
    sand of the sea, that is without measure, and shall not be
    numbered. And it shall be in the place where it shall be
    said to them: You are not my people: it shall be said to
    them: Ye are the sons of the living God.
11  And the children of Juda, and the children of Israel shall
    be gathered together: and they shall appoint themselves
    one head, and shall come up out of the land: for great is
    the day of Jezrahel.


               The Prophecy of Osee, Chapter 2

1   Say ye to your brethren: You are my people, and to your
    sister: Thou hast obtained mercy.
2   Judge your mother, judge her: because she is not my wife,
    and I am not her husband. Let her put away her
    fornications from her face, and her adulteries from
    between her breasts.
3   Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she
    was born: and I will make her as a wilderness, and will
    set her as a land that none can pass through, and will
    kill her with drought.
4   And I will not have mercy on her children: for they are
    the children of fornications.
5   For their mother hath committed fornication, she that
    conceived them is covered with shame: for she said: I will
    go after my lovers, that give me my bread, and my water,
    my wool, and my flax, my oil, and my drink.
6   Wherefore behold I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and
    I will stop it up with a wall, and she shall not find her
    paths.
7   And she shall follow after her lovers, and shall not
    overtake them: and she shall seek them, and shall not
    find, and she shall say: I will go, and return to my first
    husband, because it was better with me then, than now.
8   And she did not know that I gave her corn and wine, and
    oil, and multiplied her silver, and gold, which they have
    used in the service of Baal.
9   Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in its
    season, and my wine in its season, and I will set at
    liberty my wool, and my flax, which covered her disgrace.
10  And now I will lay open her folly in the eyes of her
    lovers: and no man shall deliver her out of my hand:
11  And I will cause all her mirth to cease, her solemnities,
    her new moons, her sabbaths, and all her festival times.
12  And I will destroy her vines, and her fig trees, of which
    she said: These are my rewards, which my lovers have given
    me: and I will make her as a forest, and the beasts of the
    held shall devour her.
13  And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, to whom she
    burnt incense, and decked herself out with her earrings,
    and with her jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgot
    me, saith the Lord.
14  Therefore, behold I will allure her, and will lead her
    into the wilderness: and I will speak to her heart.
15  And J will give her vinedressers out of the same place,
    and the valley of Acher for an opening of hope: and she
    shall sing there according to the days of her youth, and
    according to the days of her coming up out of the land of
    Egypt.
16  And it shall be in that day, saith the Lord, That she
    shall call me : My husband, and she shall call me no more
    Baali.
17  And I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth,
    and she shall no more remember their name.
18  And in that day I will make a covenant with them, with the
    beasts of the field, and with the fowls of the air, and
    with the creeping things of the earth: and I will destroy
    the bow, and the sword, and war out of the land: and I
    will make them sleep secure.
19  And I will espouse thee to me for ever: and I will espouse
    thee to me in justice, and judgment, and in mercy, and in
    commiserations.
20  And I will espouse thee to me in faith: and thou shalt
    know that I am the Lord.
21  And it shall come to pass in that day: I will hear, saith
    the Lord, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the
    earth.
22  And the earth shall hear the core, and the wine, and the
    oil, and these shall hear Jezrahel.
23  And I will sow her unto me in the earth, and I will have
    mercy on her that was without mercy.
24  And I will say to that which was not my people: Thou art
    my people: and they shall say: Thou art my God.


               The Prophecy of Osee, Chapter 3

1   And the Lord said to me: Go yet again, and love a woman
    beloved of her friend, and an adulteress : as the Lord
    loveth the children of Israel, and they look to strange
    gods, and love the husks of the grapes.
2   And I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and
    for a core of barley, and for half a core of barley.
3   And I said to her: Thou shalt wait for me many days: thou
    shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt be no man's, and
    I also will wait for thee.
4   For the children of Israel shall sit many days without
    king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and
    without altar, and without ephod, and without theraphim.
5   And after this the children of Israel shall return, and
    shall seek the Lord their God, and David their king: and
    they shall fear the Lord, and his goodness in the last
    days.


               The Prophecy of Osee, Chapter 4

1   Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel, for the
    Lord shall enter into judgment with the inhabitants of the
    land: for there is no truth, and there is no mercy, and
    there is no knowledge of God in the land.
2   Cursing, and lying, and killing, and theft, and adultery
    have overflowed, and blood hath touched blood.
3   Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that
    dwelleth in it shall languish with the beasts of the
    field, and with the fowls of the air: yea, the fishes of
    the sea also shall be gathered together.
4   But yet let not any man judge: and let not a man be
    rebuked: for thy people are as they that contradict the
    priest.
5   And thou shalt fall to day, and the prophet also shall
    fall with thee: in the night I have made thy mother to be
    silent.
6   My people have been silent, because they had no knowledge:
    because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will reject thee,
    that thou shalt not do the office of priesthood to me: and
    thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget
    thy children.
7   According to the multitude of them so have they sinned
    against me: I will change their glory into shame.
8   They shall eat the sins of my people, and shall lift up
    their souls to their iniquity.
9   And there shall be like people like priest: and I will
    visit their ways upon them, and I will repay them their
    devices.
10  And they shall eat and shall not be filled: they have
    committed fornication, and have not ceased: because they
    have forsaken the Lord in not observing his law.
11  Fornication, and wine, and drunkenness take away the
    understanding.
12  My people have consulted their stocks, and their staff
    hath declared unto them: for the spirit of fornication
    hath deceived them, and they have committed fornication
    against their God.
13  They offered sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and
    burnt incense upon the hills: under the oak, and the
    poplar, and the turpentine tree, because the shadow
    thereof was good: therefore shall your daughters commit
    fornication, and your spouses shall be adulteresses.
14  I will not visit upon your daughters when they shell
    commit fornication, and upon your spouses when they shall
    commit adultery: because themselves conversed with
    harlots, and offered sacrifice with the effeminate, and
    the people that doth not understand shall be beaten.
15  If thou play the harlot, O Israel, at least let not Juda
    offend: and go ye not into Galgal, and come not up into
    Bethaven, and do not swear: The Lord liveth.
16  For Israel hath gone astray like a wanton heifer: now will
    the Lord feed them, as a lamb in a spacious place.
17  Ephraim is a partaker with idols, let him alone.
18  Their banquet is separated, they have gone astray by
    fornication: they that should have protected them have
    loved to bring shame upon them.
19  The wind hath bound them up in its wings, and they shall
    be confounded because of their sacrifices.


               The Prophecy of Osee, Chapter 5

1   Hear ye this, O priests, and hearken, O ye house of
    Israel, and give ear, O house of the king: for there is a
    judgment against you, because you have been a snare to
    them whom you should have watched over, and a net spread
    upon Thabor.
2   And you have turned aside victims into the depth: and I
    am, the teacher of them all.
3   I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now
    Ephraim hath committed fornication, Israel is defiled.
4   They will not set their thoughts to return to their God:
    for the spirit of fornication is in the midst of them, and
    they have not known the Lord.
5   And the pride of Israel shall answer in his face: and
    Israel and Ephraim shall fall in their iniquity, Juda also
    shall fall with them.
6   With their flocks, and with their herds, they shall go to
    seek the Lord, and shall not find him: he is withdrawn
    from them.
7   They have transgressed against the Lord, for they have
    begotten children that are strangers: now shall a month
    devour them with their portions.
8   Blow ye the cornet in Gabaa, the trumpet in Rama: howl ye
    in Bethaven, behind thy back, O Benjamin.
9   Ephraim shall be in desolation in the day of rebuke: among
    the tribes of Israel I have shewn that which shall surely
    be.
10  The princes of Juda are become as they that take up the
    bound: I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.
11  Ephraim is under oppression, and broken in judgment:
    because he began to go after filthiness.
12  And I will be like a moth to Ephraim: and like rottenness
    to the house of Juda.
13  And Ephraim saw his sickness, and Juda his band: and
    Ephraim went to the Assyrian, and sent to the avenging
    king: and he shall not be able to heal you, neither shall
    he be able to take off the band from you.
14  For I will be like a lioness to Ephraim, and like a lion's
    whelp to the house of Juda: I, I will catch, and go: I
    will take away, and there is none that can rescue.
15  I will go and return to my place: until you are consumed,
    and seek my face.


               The Prophecy of Osee, Chapter 6

1   In their affliction they will rise early to me: Come, and
    let us return to the Lord:
2   For he hath taken us, and he will heal us: he will strike,
    and he will cure us.
3   He will revive us after two days: on the third day he will
    raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. We shall
    know, and we shall follow on, that we may know the Lord.
    His going forth is prepared as the morning light, and he
    will come to us as the early and the latter rain to the
    earth.
4   What shall I do to thee, O Ephraim? what shall I do to
    thee, O Juda? your mercy is as a morning cloud, and as the
    dew that goeth away in the morning.
5   For this reason have I hewed them by the prophets, I have
    slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments
    shall go forth as the light.
6   For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice: and the knowledge
    of God more than holocausts.
7   But they, like Adam, have transgressed the covenant, there
    have they dealt treacherously against me.
8   Galaad is a city of workers of idols, supplanted with
    blood.
9   And like the jaws of highway robbers, they conspire with
    the priests who murder in the way those that pass out
    Sichem: for they have wrought wickedness.
10  I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel: the
    fornications of Ephraim there: Israel is defiled.
11  And thou also, O Juda, set thee harvest, when I shall
    bring back captivity of my people.


               The Prophecy of Osee, Chapter 7

1   When I would have healed Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim
    was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria, for they
    have committed falsehood, and the thief is come in to
    steal, the robber is without.
2   And lest they may say in their hearts, that I remember all
    their wickedness: their own devices now have beset them
    about, they have been done before my face.
3   They have made the king glad with their wickedness: and
    the princes with their lies.
4   They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by the baker:
    the city rested a little from the mingling of the leaven,
    till the whole was leavened.
5   The day of our king, the princes began to be mad with
    wine: he stretched out his hand with scorners.
6   Because they have applied their heart like an oven, when
    he laid snares for them: he slept all the night baking
    them, in the morning he himself was heated as a flaming
    fire.
7   They were all heated like an oven, and have devoured their
    judges : all their kings have fallen: there is none
    amongst them that calleth unto me.
8   Ephraim himself is mixed among the nations: Ephraim is
    become as bread baked under the ashes, that is not turned.
9   Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knew it not:
    yea, grey hairs also are spread about upon him, and he is
    ignorant of it.
10  And the pride of Israel shall be humbled before his face:
    and they have not returned to the Lord their God, nor have
    they sought him in all these.
11  And Ephraim is become as a dove that is decoyed, not
    having a heart: they called upon Egypt, they went to the
    Assyrians.
12  And when they shall go, I will spread my net upon them: I
    will bring them down as the fowl of the air, I will strike
    them as their congregation hath heard.
13  Woe to them, for they have departed from me: they shall be
    wasted because they have transgressed against me: and I
    redeemed them : and they have spoken lies against me.
14  And they have not cried to me with their heart, but they
    howled in their beds: they have thought upon wheat and
    wine, they are departed from me.
15  And I have chastised them, and strengthened their arms:
    and they have imagined evil against me.
16  They returned, that they might be without yoke: they
    became like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by
    the sword, for the rage of their tongue. This is their
    derision in the land of Egypt.


               The Prophecy of Osee, Chapter 8

1   Let there be a trumpet in thy throat like an eagle upon
    the house of the Lord: because they have transgressed my
    covenant, and have violated my law.
2   They shall call upon me: O my God, we, Israel, know thee.
3   Israel hath cast off the thing that is good, the enemy
    shall pursue him.
4   They have reigned, but not by me: they have been princes,
    and I knew not: of their silver, and their gold they have
    made idols to themselves, that they might perish.
5   Thy calf, O Samaria, is cast off, my wrath is kindled
    against them. How long will they be incapable of being
    cleansed ?
6   For itself also is the invention of Israel: a workman made
    it, and it is no god: for the calf of Samaria shall be
    turned to spiders' webs.
7   For they shall sow wind, and reap a whirlwind, there is no
    standing stalk in it, the bud shall yield no meal; end if
    it should yield, strangers shall eat it.
8   Israel is swallowed up: now is he be- come among the
    nations like an unclean vessel.
9   For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by
    himself: Ephraim hath given gifts to his lovers.
10  But even though they shall have hired the nations, now
    will I gather them together: and they shall rest a while
    from the burden of the king, and the princes.
11  Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin: altars are
    become to him unto sin.
12  I shall write to him my manifold laws, which have been
    accounted as for- sign.
13  They shall offer victims, they shall sacrifice flesh, and
    shall eat it, and the Lord will not receive them: now will
    he remember their iniquity, and will visit their sins:
    they shall return to Egypt.
14  And Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and hath built
    temples: and Juda hath built many fenced cities: and I
    will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the
    houses thereof.


               The Prophecy of Osee, Chapter 9

1   Rejoice not, O Israel: rejoice not as the nations do: for
    thou hast committed fornication against thy God, thou hast
    loved a reward upon every cornfloor.
2   The door and the winepress shall not feed them, and the
    wine shall deceive them.
3   They shall not dwell in the Lord's land: Ephraim is
    returned to Egypt, and hath eaten unclean things among the
    Assyrians.
4   They shall not offer wine to the Lord, neither shall they
    please him: their sacrifices shall be like the bread of
    mourners: all that shall eat it shall be defiled: for
    their bread is life for their soul, it shall not enter
    into the house of the Lord.
5   What will you do in the solemn day, in the day of the
    feast of the Lord?
6   For behold they are gone because of destruction: Egypt
    shall gather them together, Memphis shall bury them:
    nettles shall inherit their beloved silver, the bur shall
    be in their tabernacles.
7   The days of visitation are come, the days of repaying are
    come: know ye, O Israel, that the prophet was foolish, the
    spiritual man was mad, for the multitude of thy iniquity,
    and the multitude of thy madness.
8   The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: the prophet is
    become a snare of ruin upon all his ways, madness is in
    the house of his God.
9   They have sinned deeply, as in the days of Gabaa: he will
    remember their iniquity, and will visit their sin.
10  I found Israel like grapes in the desert, I saw their
    fathers like the firstfruits of the dg tree in the top
    thereof: but they went in to Beelphegor, and alienated
    themselves to that confusion, and became abominable, as
    those things were, which they loved.
11  As for Ephraim, their glory hath flown away like a bird
    from the birth, and from the womb, and from the
    conception.
12  And though they should bring up their children, I will
    make them without children among men: yea, and woe to
    them, when I shall depart from them.
13  Ephraim, as I saw, was a Tyre founded in beauty: and
    Ephraim shall bring out his children to the murderer.
14  Give them, O Lord. What wilt thou give them? Give them a
    womb without children, and dry breasts.
15  All their wickedness is in Galgal, for there I hated them:
    for the wickedness of their devices I will cast them forth
    out of my house: I will love them no more, all their
    princes are revolters.
16  Ephraim is struck, their root is dried up, they shall
    yield no fruit. And if they should have issue, I will slay
    the best beloved fruit of their womb.
17  My God will cast them away, because they hearkened not to
    him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.


               The Prophecy of Osee, Chapter 10

1   Israel a vine full of branches, the fruit is agreeable to
    it: according to the multitude of his fruit he hath
    multiplied altars, according to the plenty of his land he
    hath abounded with idols.
2   Their heart is divided: now they shall perish: he shall
    break down their idols, he shall destroy their altars.
3   For now they shall say: We have no king: because we fear
    not the Lord: and what shall a king do to us?
4   You speak words of an unprofitable vision, and you shall
    make a covenant: and judgment shall spring up as
    bitterness in the furrows of the field.
5   The inhabitants of Samaria have worshipped the king of
    Bethaven: for the people thereof have mourned over it, and
    the wardens of its temple that rejoiced over it in its
    glory because it is departed from it.
6   For itself also is carried into Assyria, a present to the
    avenging king: shame shall fall upon Ephraim, and Israel
    shall be confounded in his own will.
7   Samaria hath made her king to pass as froth upon the face
    of the water.
8   And the high places of the idol, the sin of Israel shall
    be destroyed: the bur and the thistle shall grow up over
    their altars: and they shall say to the mountains: Cover
    us; and to the hills: Fall upon us.
9   From the days of Gabaa, Israel hath sinned, there they
    stood: the battle in Gabaa against the children of
    iniquity shall not overtake them.
10  According to my desire I will chastise them: and the
    nations shall be gathered together against them, when they
    shall be chastised for their two iniquities.
11  Ephraim is a heifer taught to love to tread out corn, but
    I passed over upon the beauty of her neck: I will ride
    upon Ephraim, Juda shall plough, Jacob shall break the
    furrows for himself.
12  Sow for yourselves in justice, and reap in the mouth of
    mercy, break up your fallow ground: but the time to seek
    the Lord is, when he shall come that shall teach you
    justice.
13  You have ploughed wickedness, you have reaped iniquity,
    you have eaten the fruit of lying: because thou hast
    trusted in thy ways, in the multitude of thy strong ones.
14  A tumult shall arise among thy people: and all thy
    fortresses shall be destroyed as Salmana was destroyed, by
    the house of him that judged Baal in the day of battle,
    the mother being dashed in pieces upon her children.
15  So hath Bethel done to you, because of the evil of your
    iniquities.


               The Prophecy of Osee, Chapter 11

1   As the morning passeth, so hath the king of Israel Israel
    was a child, and I loved him: and I called my son out of
    Egypt.
2   As they called them, they went away from before their
    face: they offered victims to Baalim, and sacrificed to
    idols.
3   And I was like a foster father to Ephraim, I carried them
    in my arms: and they knew not that I healed them.
4   I will draw them with the cords of Adam, with the bands of
    love : and I will be to them as one that taketh off the
    yoke on their jaws: and I put his meat to him that he
    might eat.
5   He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the
    Assyrian shall be his king: because they would not be
    converted.
6   The sword hath begun in his cities, and it shall consume
    his chosen men, and sha.ll devour their heads.
7   And my people shall long for my return: but a yoke shall
    be put upon them together, which shall not be taken off.
8   How shall I deal with thee, O Ephraim, shall I protect
    thee, O Israel? how shall I make thee as Adama, shall I
    set thee as Seboim? my heart is turned within me, my
    repentance is stirred up.
9   I will not execute the fierceness of my wrath: I will not
    return to destroy Ephraim: because I am God, and not man:
    the holy one in the midst of thee, and I will not enter
    into the city.
10  They shall walk after the Lord, he shall roar as a lion:
    because he shall roar, and the children of the sea shall
    fear.
11  And they shall fly away like a bird out of Egypt, and like
    a dove out of the land of the Assyrians: and I will place
    them in their own houses, saith the Lord.
12  Ephraim hath compassed me about with denials, and the
    house of Israel with deceit: but Juda went down as a
    witness with God, and is faithful with the saints.


               The Prophecy of Osee, Chapter 12

1   Ephraim feedeth on the wind, and followeth the burning
    heat: all the day long he multiplied lies and desolation:
    and he hath made a covenant with the Assyrians, and
    carried oil into Egypt.
2   Therefore there is a judgment of the Lord with Juda, and
    a visitation for Jacob: he will render to him according to
    his ways, and according to his devices.
3   In the womb he supplanted his brother: and by his strength
    he had success with an angel.
4   And he prevailed over the angel, and was strengthened: he
    wept, and made supplication to him: he found him in
    Bethel, and there he spoke with us.
5   Even the Lord the God of hosts, the Lord is his memorial.
6   Therefore turn thou to thy God : keep mercy and judgment,
    and hope in thy God always.
7   He is like Chanaan, there is a deceitful balance in his
    hand, he hath loved oppression.
8   And Ephraim said: But yet I am be- come rich, I have found
    me an idol: all my labours shall not find me the iniquity
    that I have committed.
9   And I that am the Lord thy God from the land of Egypt,
    will yet cause thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in the
    days of the feast.
10  And I have spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied
    visions, and I have used similitudes by the ministry of
    the prophets.
11  If Galaad be an idol, then in vain were they in Galgal
    offering sacrifices with bullocks: for their altars also
    are as heaps in the furrows of the field.
12  Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served
    for a wife, and was a keeper for a wife.
13  But the Lord by a prophet brought Israel out of Egypt: and
    he was pre- served by a prophet.
14  Ephraim hath provoked me to wrath with his bitterness, and
    his blood shall come upon him, and his Lord will render
    his reproach unto him.


               The Prophecy of Osee, Chapter 13

1   When Ephraim spoke, a horror seized Israel: and he sinned
    in Baal and died.
2   And now they have sinned more and more : and they have
    made to themselves a molten thing of their silver as the
    likeness of idols: the whole is the work of craftsmen: to
    these that say: Sacrifice men, ye that adore calves.
3   Therefore they shall be as a morning aloud, and as the
    early dew that passeth away, as the dust that is driven
    with a whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of
    the chimney.
4   But I am the Lord thy God from the land of Egypt: and thou
    shalt know no God but me, and there is no saviour beside
    me.
5   I knew thee in the desert, in the land of the wilderness.
6   According to their pastures they were filled, and were
    made full: and they lifted up their heart, and have
    forgotten me.
7   And I will be to them as a lioness, as a leopard in the
    way of the Assyrians.
8   I will meet them as a bear that is robbed of her whelps,
    and I will rend the inner parts of their liver: and I will
    devour them there as a lion, the beast of the field shall
    tear them.
9   Destruction is thy own, 0
    Israel: thy help is only in me.
10  Where is thy king? now especially let him save thee in all
    thy cities: and thy judges, of whom thou saidst: Q Give me
    kings and princes.
11  I will give thee a king in my wrath, and will take him
    away in my indignation.
12  The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up, his sin is hidden.
13  The sorrows of a woman in labour snail come upon him, he
    is an unwise son: for now he shall not stand in the breach
    of the children.
14  I will deliver them out of the hand of death. I will
    redeem them from death : O death, I will be thy death; O
    hell, I will be thy bite: comfort is hidden from my eyes.
15  Because he shall make a separation between brothers: s the
    Lord will bring a burning wind that shall rise from the
    desert, and it shall dry up his springs, and shall make
    his fountain desolate, and he shall carry off the treasure
    of every desirable vessel.


               The Prophecy of Osee, Chapter 14

1   Let Samaria perish, because she hath stirred up her God to
    bitterness: let them perish by the sword, let their little
    ones be dashed, and let the women with child be ripped up.
2   Return, O Israel, to the Lord thy God: for thou hast
    fallen down by thy iniquity.
3   Take with you words, and return to the Lord, and say to
    him: Take away all iniquity, and receive the good: and we
    will render the calves of our lips.
4   Assyria shall not save us, we will not ride upon horses,
    neither will we say any more: The works of our hands are
    our gods, for thou wilt have mercy on the fatherless that
    is in thee.
5   I will heal their breaches, I will love them freely: for
    my wrath is turned away from them.
6   I will be as the dew, Israel shall spring as the lily, and
    his root shall shoot forth as that of Libanus.
7   His branches shall spread, and his glory shall be as the
    olive tree: and his smell as that of Libanus.
8   They shall be converted that sit under his shadow: they
    shall live upon wheat, and they shall blossom as a vine:
    his memorial shall be as the wine of Libanus.
9   Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols?
    I will hear him, and I will make him flourish like a green
    fir tree: from me is thy fruit found.
10  Who is wise, and he shall understand these things?
    prudent, and he shall know these things? for the ways of
    the Lord are right, and the just shall walk in them: but
    the transgressors shall fall in them.