Hosea 14:1 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God, for you have stumbled because of your iniquity. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition O ISRAEL, return to the Lord your God, for you have stumbled and fallen, [visited by calamity] due to your iniquity. American Standard Version (1901) O Israel, return unto Jehovah thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity. Common English Bible Return, Israel, to the LORD your God; you have stumbled because of your wickedness. Catholic Public Domain Version Let Samaria perish, because she has urged her God towards bitterness. Let them perish by the sword, let their little ones be thrown down, and let their pregnant women be cut in two. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version 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 ripped up. |
Hazael asked, “Why does my lord weep?” He answered, “Because I know the evil that you will do to the people of Israel; you will set their fortresses on fire; you will kill their young men with the sword, dash in pieces their little ones, and rip up their pregnant women.”
The Lord will strike Egypt, striking but healing, so that they will return to the Lord, and he will listen to their supplications and heal them.
Your wickedness will punish you, and your faithlessness will convict you. Know and see that it is evil and bitter for you to forsake the Lord your God; the fear of me is not in you, says the Lord God of hosts.
If you return, O Israel, says the Lord, if you return to me, if you remove your abominations from my presence and do not waver,
Your big sister is Samaria, who lived with her daughters to the north of you; your little sister, who lived to the south of you, is Sodom with her daughters.
Say to them: As I live, says the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked but that the wicked turn from their ways and live; turn back, turn back from your evil ways, for why will you die, O house of Israel?
Again, though I say to the wicked, “You shall surely die,” yet if they turn from their sin and do what is lawful and right—
Sow for yourselves righteousness; reap steadfast love; break up your fallow ground, for it is time to seek the Lord, that he may come and rain righteousness upon you.
But as for you, return to your God; hold fast to love and justice, and wait continually for your God.
Ephraim has said, “Ah, I am rich; I have gained wealth for myself; in all of my gain no offense has been found in me that would be sin.”
Israel’s pride testifies against him; Ephraim stumbles in his guilt; Judah also stumbles with them.
“Come, let us return to the Lord, for it is he who has torn, and he will heal us; he has struck down, and he will bind us up.
Once I saw Ephraim as a young palm planted in a lovely meadow, but now Ephraim must lead out his children for slaughter.
The days of punishment have come; the days of recompense have come. Israel will cry out, “The prophet is a fool; the man of the spirit is mad!” Because of your great iniquity, your hostility is great.
Thus says the Lord: For three transgressions of the Ammonites, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have ripped open pregnant women in Gilead in order to enlarge their territory.