1. Return, Israel, to the Lord your God. Your sins have been your downfall!
2. Take words with you and return to the Lord. Say to him: “Forgive all our sins and receive us graciously, that we may offer the fruit of our lips.
3. Assyria cannot save us; we will not mount warhorses. We will never again say ‘Our gods’ to what our own hands have made, for in you the fatherless find compassion.”
4. “I will heal their waywardness and love them freely, for my anger has turned away from them.
5. I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like a lily. Like a cedar of Lebanon he will send down his roots;