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Hosea 14:2

RepentanceForgivenessPrayerPraise and worship

1 Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled by your iniquity.

Bring 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.

3 Assyria 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.”

4 I will heal their apostasy; I will freely love them, for My anger has turned away from them.

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BSB
Bring 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.
KJV
Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips.
WEB
Take words with you, and return to the LORD. Tell him, “Forgive all our sins, and accept that which is good; so we offer bulls as we vowed of our lips.
ASV
Take with you words, and return unto Jehovah: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and accept that which is good: so will we render [as] bullocks [the offering of] our lips.
DARBY
Take with you words, and turn to Jehovah; say unto him, Forgive all iniquity, and receive [us] graciously; so will we render the calves of our lips.
BLB
Take with you⁺ words, and return to YHWH. Say to Him: “Lift away all iniquity, and receive what is good, and we offer the fruit of our lips.
ÅB
Kom med [ydmyke] ord og vend om til Herren! Si til ham: Tilgi all misgjerning og ta imot det gode vi kan gi - la oss betale med okser, med våre lepper[^1]!
OTB
Ta ord med dere og vend tilbake til Herren.
Si til Ham,
“Tilgi all vår skyld
Og ta imot oss nådig,
Så vi kan bære frukt med våre lepper.
B1930
Kom med ydmyke ord og vend om til Herren! Si til ham: Forlat all misgjerning og ta imot det gode vi kan yde - la oss betale med okser, med våre leber!

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Cross references

  • Hebrews 13:15

    Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise, the fruit of lips that confess His name.

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  • Psalms 51:2–10

    Wash me clean of my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin.

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  • Job 34:31–32

    Suppose someone says to God, ‘I have endured my punishment; I will offend no more.

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  • Micah 7:18–19

    Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance— who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?

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  • Job 7:21

    Why do You not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For soon I will lie down in the dust; You will seek me, but I will be no more.”

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  • 1 John 3:5

    But you know that Christ appeared to take away sins, and in Him there is no sin.

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  • Psalms 69:30–31

    I will praise God’s name in song and exalt Him with thanksgiving.

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  • Joel 2:17

    Let the priests who minister before the LORD weep between the portico and the altar, saying, “Spare Your people, O LORD, and do not make Your heritage a reproach, an object of scorn among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’”

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