1. Return, Israel, to the Lord your God.Your sins have been your downfall!
2. Take words with youand return to the Lord.Say to him:‘Forgive all our sinsand receive us graciously,that we may offer the fruit of our lips.
3. Assyria cannot save us;we will not mount war-horses.We will never again say “Our gods”to what our own hands have made,for in you the fatherless find compassion.’
4. ‘I will heal their waywardnessand love them freely,for my anger has turned away from them.