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New English [1970], THE NEW ENGLISH BIBLE (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS; CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE) [word count] [B16000].

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Repentance, forgiveness, and restoration

1   Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God;
    for you have stumbled in your evil courses.
   2   Come with your words ready,
    come back to the Lord;
say to him, ‘Thou dost not ^note endure iniquity. ^note
    Accept our plea,
  and we will pay our vows with cattle from our pens. ^note
3   Assyria shall not save us, nor will we seek horses to ride;
    what we have made with our own hands
  we will never again call gods;
  for in thee the fatherless find a father's love.’

4   I will heal their apostasy; of my own bounty will I love them;
  for my anger is turned away from them.
   5   I will be as dew to Israel
    that he may flower like the lily,
  strike root like the poplar ^note
     6   and put out fresh shoots,
  that he may be as fair as the olive
    and fragrant as Lebanon.
   7   Israel shall again dwell ^note in my ^note shadow
    and grow corn in abundance;
    they shall flourish like a vine
    and be famous as the wine of Lebanon.
8   What has Ephraim ^note any more to do with idols?
  I have spoken and I affirm it:
  I am the pine-tree that shelters you;
  to me you owe your fruit.

9 Let the wise consider these things and let him who considers take note; for the Lord's ways are straight and the righteous walk in them, while sinners stumble.

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New English [1970], THE NEW ENGLISH BIBLE (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS; CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE) [word count] [B16000].