Return, O Israel, to your God! for you are weakened by your iniquities.
Take after your own words, and return to Speak to him! so that you should not receive and good things, and we will recompense of our lips.
Assyria in no way shall deliver us; upon a horse we shall not ascend; no longer in any way should we say, Our gods to the works of our hands. The one among you shall show mercy on the orphan.
I will repair their dwellings; I will love them confessedly, for turned away from them;
and I will be as dew Israel; he shall bloom as a lily, and shall cast his roots as Lebanon.
shall go forth and he will be as olive and his smell as Lebanon.
They shall return and sit under his protection; they shall live and shall be fixed firmly in grain, and they shall blossom as a grapevine. The memorial of him of Lebanon.
Ephraim, what is there to him yet and to idols? I humbled him, and I shall strengthen him. I am as a juniper being dense. From me your fruit has been found.
Who is wise, and perceives these things? discerning, and recognizes them? For straight are the ways of the and shall go by them; but the impious shall weaken in them.