Dual PanelRepentance and restoration
1RETURN, Israel, to the LORD your God; for your iniquity has been your downfall.
2Come back to the LORD with your words of confession; say to him, “You will surely take away iniquity. Accept our wealth; we shall pay our vows with cattle from our pens.
3Assyria will not save us, nor shall we rely on horses; what we have made with our own hands we shall never again call gods; for in you the fatherless find compassion.”
4I shall heal my people's apostasy; I shall love them freely, for my anger is turned away from them.
5I shall be as dew to Israel that they may flower like the lily, strike root like the poplar,
6and put out fresh shoots, that they may be as fair as the olive and fragrant as Lebanon.
7Israel will again dwell in my shadow; they will grow vigorously like grain, they will flourish like a vine, and be as famous as the wine of Lebanon.
8What further dealings has Ephraim with idols? I declare it and affirm it: I am the pine tree that shelters you; your prosperity comes from me.
9Let the wise consider these things and let the prudent acknowledge them: the LORD's ways are straight and the righteous walk in them, while sinners stumble.