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¹ (14-2) Return, O Israel, to the Lord thy God: for thou hast fallen down by thy iniquity.² (14-3) 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.³ (14-4) 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.

⁴ (14-5) I will heal their breaches, I will love them freely: for my wrath is turned away from them.⁵ (14-6) I will be as the dew, Israel shall spring as the lily, and his root shall shoot forth as that of Libanus.⁶ (14-7) His branches shall spread, and his glory shall be as the olive tree: and his smell as that of Libanus.⁷ (14-8) 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.

⁸ (14-9) 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.⁹ Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of the Lord are right and the [uncompromisingly] just shall walk in them, but transgressors shall stumble and fall in them. Ps. 107:43; Jer. 9:12;