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Hosea [https://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cdo/aid/16168/jewish/Chapter-14.htm finishes off] with a final embrace by God:

Hosea [https://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cdo/aid/16168/jewish/Chapter-14.htm finishes off] with a final eternal embrace by God:

{{Cquote|1 Samaria shall be accounted guilty, for she has rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword, their infants shall be dashed, and their pregnant women shall be ripped up.

{{Cquote|1 Samaria shall be accounted guilty, for she has rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword, their infants shall be dashed, and their pregnant women shall be ripped up.

 

2 Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God, for you have stumbled in your iniquity. :

2 Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God, for you have stumbled in your iniquity. :

3 Take words with yourselves and return to the Lord. Say, "You shall forgive all iniquity and teach us [the] good [way], and let us render [for] bulls [the offering of] our lips.

3 Take words with yourselves and return to the Lord. Say, "You shall forgive all iniquity and teach us [the] good [way], and let us render [for] bulls [the offering of] our lips.

4 Assyria shall not save us; we will not ride on horses, nor will we say any longer, our gods, to the work of our hands, for in You, by Whom the orphan is granted mercy."

4 Assyria shall not save us; we will not ride on horses, nor will we say any longer, our gods, to the work of our hands, for in You, by Whom the orphan is granted mercy."

5 I will remedy their backsliding; I will love them freely, for My wrath has turned away from them.

5 I will remedy their backsliding; I will love them freely, for My wrath has turned away from them.

6 I will be like dew to Israel, they shall blossom like a rose, and it shall strike its roots like the Lebanon.}}

6 I will be like dew to Israel, they shall blossom like a rose, and it shall strike its roots like the Lebanon.}}