Hosea 14:1–3

¹Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God,

for you have stumbled by your iniquity.

²Bring your confessions

and return to the LORD.

Say to Him: “Take away all our iniquity

and receive us graciously,

that we may present

the fruit of our lips.^a

³Assyria will not save us,

nor will we ride on horses.

We will never again say, ‘Our gods!’

to the work of our own hands.

For in You the fatherless find compassion.”