Israel’s Future Blessing
O Israel, areturn in repentance to the LORD your God,For you have stumbled and fallen visited by tragedy, because of your bsin.Hos 6:1; 10:12; 12:6; Joel 2:13Hos 4:8; 5:5; 9:72 Take the words confessing your guilt with you and return to the LORD.Say to Him, “aTake away all our wickedness;Accept what is good and receive us graciously,So that we may bpresent the fruit of our lips . Heb 13:15Mic 7:18, 19Ps 51:16, 17; Hos 6:6; Heb 13:153 “Assyria will not save us;We will anot ride on horses relying on military might,Nor will we say again to the idols who are the bwork of our hands,‘You are cour gods.’For in dYou O LORD the orphan finds love and compassion and mercy.”Ps 33:17; Is 31:1Hos 8:6; 13:2Hos 4:12Ps 10:14; 68:5
4 I will aheal their apostasy and faithlessness;I will blove them freely,For My anger has cturned away from Israel.Is 57:18; Hos 6:1Zeph 3:17Is 12:15 I shall be like the adew to Israel;He will blossom like the blily,And he will take root like the cedars of cLebanon.Prov 19:12; Is 26:19Song 2:1; Matt 6:28Is 35:26 His shoots will sprout,And his beauty will be like the aolive treeAnd his fragrance like the cedars of bLebanon.Jer 11:16Song 4:117 Those who alive in his shadowWill again raise bgrain,And they will blossom like the vine.His renown will be like the wine of Lebanon.Ezek 17:23Hos 2:21, 22
8 O Ephraim, what more have I to do with aidols?It is I who have answered and will care for you and watch over you.I am like a bluxuriant cypress tree;With cMe your fruit is found which is to nourish you.Job 34:32; Hos 14:3Is 41:19Ezek 17:23
9 aWhoever is spiritually wise, let him understand these things;Whoever is spiritually discerning and understanding, let him know them.For the bways of the LORD are right,And the crighteous will walk in them,But dtransgressors will stumble and fall in them. Ps 107:43; Is 26:7; Jer 9:12; Dan 12:10Ps 107:43; Jer 9:12Ps 111:7, 8; Prov 10:29; Zeph 3:5Is 26:7Is 1:28