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Hosea 14 from 4Q78 Minor Prophetsc

Take words with you, and return to Yahweh.

Tell him, “Forgive all our sins,

and accept that which is good:

so we offer our lips like bulls.

Assyria can’t save us.

We won’t ride on horses;

neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, ‘Our gods!’

for in you the fatherless finds mercy.”

[..]

5 I will be like the dew to Israel.

He will blossom like the lily,

and send down his roots like Lebanon.

 

Hosea 14 from Scroll 4Q82 Minor Prophetsg

8 Ephraim, what have I to do any more with idols?

I answer, and will take care of him.

I am like a green cypress tree;

from me your fruit is found.”

 

9 Who is wise, that he may understand these things?

Who is prudent, that he may know them?

For the ways of Yahweh are right,

and the righteous walk in them;

But the rebellious stumble in them.

 

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