1   Samaria shalbe desolate: for she hath rebelled against her God: they shal fall by the sworde: their infants shalbe dashed in pieces, & their women with childe shalbe ript.

2   O Israel, ^note returne vnto the Lord thy God: for thou hast fallen by thine iniquitie.

3   Take vnto you words, & turne to the Lord, and say vnto him, ^note Take away all iniquitie, and Calues of the lippes. receiue vs graciously: so wil we render the calues of our ^note lippes.

4   Asshur shal ^note not saue vs, neither wil we ride vpon horses, neither will we say any more to the worke of our handes, Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatherlesse findeth mercie.

5    ^noteI wil heale their rebellion: I wil loue them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.

6   I will be as the dewe vnto Israel: he shall grow as the lilie and fasten his rootes, as the trees of Lebanon.

7   His branches shall spread, and his beautie shalbe as the oliue tree, and his smel as Lebanon.

8   They that dwel vnder his ^note shadow, shal returne: they shall reuiue as the corne, and florish as the vine: the sent thereof shalbe as the wine of Lebanon.

9   Ephraim shal say, What haue I to doe any more with idoles? I ^note haue heard him, and looked vpon him: I am like a greene firre tree: vpon me is thy fruite founde.

10   Who is ^note wise, and he shall vnderstande these things? and prudent, and he shall knowe them? for the wayes of the Lorde are righteous, and the iust shall walke in them: but the wicked shal fall therein.

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