1. Israel, return to Yahweh your God, for you have stumbled in your sin.
2. Take words of repentance with you and return to the Lord.Say to Him: “Forgive all our sinand accept what is good,so that we may repay Youwith praise from our lips.
3. Assyria will not save us, we will not ride on horses, and we will no longer proclaim, ‘Our gods! ’ to the work of our hands. For the fatherless receives compassion in You.”
4. I will heal their apostasy; I will freely love them, for My anger will have turned from him.
5. I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like the lily and take root like the cedars of Lebanon.
6. His new branches will spread,and his splendor will be like the olive tree, his fragrance, like the forest of Lebanon.