{
 "translation": "KJV",
 "book": "Hosea",
 "chapter": 14,
 "verses": [
  {
   "v": 1,
   "t": "O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity."
  },
  {
   "v": 2,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 3,
   "t": "Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy."
  },
  {
   "v": 4,
   "t": "I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him."
  },
  {
   "v": 5,
   "t": "I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon."
  },
  {
   "v": 6,
   "t": "His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon."
  },
  {
   "v": 7,
   "t": "They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon."
  },
  {
   "v": 8,
   "t": "Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have heard him, and observed him: I am like a green fir tree. From me is thy fruit found."
  },
  {
   "v": 9,
   "t": "Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein."
  }
 ],
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