{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/ylt/hosea/14","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-19T08:31:33.827Z"},"reference":{"translation":"YLT","book":"Hosea","bookSlug":"hosea","chapter":14,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":13,"nextChapter":null,"totalChapters":14,"totalVerses":9},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Turn back, O Israel, unto Jehovah thy God, For thou hast stumbled by thine iniquity."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Take with you words, and turn to Jehovah, Say ye unto Him: 'Take away all iniquity, and give good, And we do render the fruit of our lips."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Asshur doth not save us, on a horse we ride not, Nor do we say any more, Our God, to the work of our hands, For in Thee find mercy doth the fatherless.'"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"I heal their backsliding, I love them freely, For turned back hath Mine anger from him."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"I am as dew to Israel, he flourisheth as a lily, And he striketh forth his roots as Lebanon."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Go on do his sucklings, And his beauty is as an olive, And he hath fragrance as Lebanon."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Return do the dwellers under his shadow, They revive as corn, and flourish as a vine, His memorial is as wine of Lebanon."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"O Ephraim, what to Me any more with idols? I — I afflicted, and I cause him to sing: 'I am as a green fir-tree,' From Me is thy fruit found."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Who is wise, and doth understand these? Prudent, and knoweth them? For upright are the ways of Jehovah, And the righteous go on in them, And the transgressors stumble therein!"}],"citation":{"inline":"Hosea 14 (YLT)","markdown":"[Hosea 14](https://primebible.com/ylt/hosea/14)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* YLT. https://primebible.com/ylt/hosea/14 (accessed 2026-06-19)."}}