Douay Rheims Original ↷

Hosea

14:1

Hosea 14 📜 📕 ↷

A Call to Repentance

1 LET Samaria perish, because she hath stirred up her God to bitterness: let them perish by the sword, let their little ones be dashed, and let the women with child be cut in sunder.📜💬📚

2 Convert o Israel to our Lord thy God: because thou art fallen in thine iniquity.📜💬📚

3 Take words with you, and convert to our Lord, and say to him: Take away all iniquity, and receive good: and we will render the calves of our lips.📜💬📚

A Promise of God's Blessing

4 Assur shall not save us, we will not mount upon horse: neither will we say any more: Our gods the work of our hands: because thou wilt have mercy on the pupil, which is in thee.📜💬📚

5 I will heal their confractions, I will love them voluntarily: because my fury is averted from them.📜💬📚

6 I will be as dew, Israel shall spring as the lily, and his root shall break forth as that of Libanus.📜💬📚

7 His boughs shall go, and his glory shall be as the olive-tree: and his smell as of Libanus.📜💬📚

8 They shall be converted that sit under his shadow: they shall live with wheat, and they shall spring as a vine: his memorial as the wine of Libanus.📜💬📚

9 Ephraim, what have I to do any more with idols? I will hear, and I will direct him as a verdant fir-tree: out of me thy fruit is found.📜💬📚

10 Who is wise, and shall understand these things? Of understanding, and shall know these things? Because the ways of our Lord be right, and the just shall walk in them: but prevaricators shall fall in them.📜💬📚