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HOSEA
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- For she hath rebelled against her God:
- They shall fall by the sword:
- Their infants shall be dashed in pieces,
- And their women with child shall be ripped up.
- O Israel, return unto the Lord thy God;
- For thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.
- Take with you words, and turn to the Lord:
- Say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously:
- So will we render the calves of our lips.
- Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses:
- Neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods:
- For in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.
- I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely:
- For mine anger is turned away from him.
- I will be as the dew unto Israel:
- He shall grow as the lily,
- And cast forth his roots as Lebanon.
- His branches shall spread,
- And his beauty shall be as the olive tree,
- And his smell as Lebanon.
- They that dwell under his shadow shall return;
- They shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine:
- The scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon.
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