Yahweh’s Anger Turns Away from Israel
aReturn, O Israel, to Yahweh your God,
For you have stumbled in your biniquity.
2 Take words with you and return to Yahweh.
Say to Him, “aForgive all iniquity
And take what is good,
That we may bpay in full the fruit of our lips.
3 Assyria will not save us;
We will anot ride on horses,
Nor will we say again, ‘bOur god,’
To the cwork of our hands;
For in dYou the orphan finds compassion.”
4 I will aheal their turning away from Me;
I will blove them freely,
For My anger has cturned away from them.
5 I will be like the adew to Israel;
He will flourish like the blily,
And he will take root like the cedars of cLebanon.
6 His shoots will go forth,
And his splendor will be like the aolive tree
And his fragrance like the cedars of bLebanon.
7 Those who alive in his shadow
Will again raise bgrain,
And they will flourish like the vine.
His name of remembrance will be like the wine of Lebanon.
8 O Ephraim, what more have I to do with aidols?
It is I who answer and look after you.
I am like a luxuriant bcypress;
From cMe comes your fruit.
9 aWhoever is wise, so let him discern these things;
Whoever is discerning, let him know them.
For the bways of Yahweh are right,
And the crighteous will walk in them,
But dtransgressors will stumble in them.