1. Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God,for you have stumbled because of your iniquity.
2. Take words with youand return to the Lord.Say to Him,“Take away all iniquity,and accept that which is good;and we will offer the fruit of our lips!
3. Assyria will not save us,we will not ride on horses.We will no longer say, ‘Our God,’to the work of our hands.In You the orphan finds mercy.”
4. I will heal their backsliding;I will love them freely,for My anger has turned away from him.
5. I will be like the dew to Israel;he shall grow like the lilyand shall strike his rootslike Lebanon.