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Chapter 14
III.
THE REPENTANCE AND RECONCILIATION OF ISRAEL. A PROMISE OF FUTURE HAPPINESS
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Samaria must atone for rebelling against her God. They shall fall by the sword, their little children be dashed to pieces, their pregnant women disembowelled.
The sincere conversion of Israel to Yahweh
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Israel, come back to Yahweh your God; your iniquity was the cause of your downfall.
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Provide yourself with words and come back to Yahweh. Say to him, ‘Take all iniquity away so that we may have happiness again and offer you our words of praise.
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Assyria cannot save us, we will not ride horses any more[*a], or say, “Our God!” to what our own hands have made, for you are the one in whom orphans find compassion.
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-I will heal their disloyalty, I will love them with all my heart, for my anger has turned from them.
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I will fall like dew on Israel. He shall bloom like the lily, and thrust out roots like the poplar,
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his shoots will spread far; he will have the beauty of the olive and the fragrance of Lebanon.
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They will come back to live in my shade; they will grow corn that flourishes, they will cultivate vines as renowned as the wine of Helbon.
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What has Ephraim to do with idols any more when it is I who hear his prayer and care for him? I am like a cypress ever green, all your fruitfulness comes from me.
Concluding admonition
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Let the wise man understand these words. Let the intelligent man grasp their meaning. For the ways of Yahweh are straight, and virtuous men walk in them, but sinners stumble.
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