• Yahweh’s Anger Turns Away from Israel

  • 1 Return, O Israel, to Yahweh your God, For you have stumbled in your iniquity.
  • 2 Take words with you and return to Yahweh. Say to Him, “Forgive all iniquity And take what is good, That we may pay in full the fruit of our lips.
  • 3 “Assyria will not save us; We will not ride on horses, Nor will we say again, ‘Our god,’ To the work of our hands; For in You the orphan finds compassion.”
  • 4 I will heal their turning away from Me; I will love them freely, For My anger has turned away from them.
  • 5 I will be like the dew to Israel; He will flourish like the lily, And he will take root like the cedars of Lebanon.
  • 6 His shoots will go forth, And his splendor will be like the olive tree And his fragrance like the cedars of Lebanon.
  • 7 Those who live in his shadow Will again raise grain, 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 idols? It is I who answer and look after you. I am like a luxuriant cypress; From Me comes your fruit.
  • 9 Whoever is wise, so let him discern these things; Whoever is discerning, let him know them. For the ways of Yahweh are right, And the righteous will walk in them, But transgressors will stumble in them.