Oseas 14
1 CONVIÉRTETE, oh Israel, á Jehová tu Dios: porque por tu pecado has caído.2 Tomad con vosotros palabras, y convertíos á Jehová, y decidle: Quita toda iniquidad, y acepta el bien, y daremos becerros de nuestros labios.3 No nos librará Assur; no subiremos sobre caballos, ni nunca más diremos á la obra de nuestras manos: Dioses nuestros: porque en ti el huérfano alcanzará misericordia.
4 Yo medicinaré su rebelión, amarélos de voluntad: porque mi furor se apartó de ellos.
5 Yo seré á Israel como rocío; él florecerá como lirio, y extenderá sus raíces como el Líbano.
6 Extenderse han sus ramos, y será su gloria como la de la oliva, y olerá como el Líbano.
7 Volverán, y se sentarán bajo de su sombra: serán vivificados como trigo, y florecerán como la vid: su olor, como de vino del Líbano.
8 Ephraim dirá: ¿Qué más tendré ya con los ídolos? Yo lo oiré, y miraré; yo seré á él como la haya verde: de mí será hallado tu fruto.
9 ¿Quién es sabio para que entienda esto, y prudente para que los sepa? Porque los caminos del Jehová son derechos, y los justos andarán por ellos: mas los rebeldes en ellos caerán.
Hosea 14
Prophetic Call to Genuine Repentance
1 Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God,
for your sin has been your downfall!t
2 Return to the Lord and repent!t
Say to him: “Completelyt forgive our iniquity;
accepts our penitential prayer,t
that we may offer the praise of our lips as sacrificial bulls.s
3 Assyria cannot save us;
we will not ride warhorses.
We will never again say, ‘Our gods’
to what our own hands have made.
For only you will show compassion to Orphan Israel!”t
Divine Promise to Relent from Judgment and to Restore Blessings
4 “I will heal their waywardnesss
and love them freely,t
for my anger will turns away from them.
5 I will be like the dew to Israel;
he will blossom like a lily,
he will send down his roots like a cedar oft Lebanon.
6 His young shoots will grow;
his splendor will be like an olive tree,
his fragrance like a cedar of Lebanon.
7 People will reside againt in his shade;
they will plant and harvest grain in abundance.t
They will blossom like a vine,
and his fame will be like the wine from Lebanon.
8 O Ephraim, I do not want to have anything to dot with idols anymore!
I will answer him and care for him.
I am liket a luxuriant cypress tree;t
your fruitfulness comes from me!t
Concluding Exhortation
9 Who is wise?
Let him discernt these things!
Who is discerning?
Let him understand them!
For the ways of the Lord are right;
the godly walk in them,
but in them the rebellious stumble.