1 Samaria shall be utterly destroyed : for she has resisted her God ; they shall fall by the sword, and their sucklings shall be dashed against the ground, and their women with child ripped up.
2 Return, O Israel, to the Lord thy God ; for the people have fallen through thine iniquities.
3 Take with you words, and turn to the Lord your God : speak to him, that ye may not receive the reward of unrighteousness, but that ye may receive good things : and we will render in return the fruit of our lips.
4 Assur shall never save us ; we will not mount on horseback ; we will no longer say to the works of our hands, Our gods. He who is in thee shall pity the orphan.
5 I will restore their dwellings, I will love them truly : for he has turned away my wrath from him.
6 I will be as dew to Israel : he shall bloom as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Libanus.
7 His branches shall spread, and he shall be as a fruitful olive, and his smell shall be as the smell of Libanus.
8 They shall return, and dwell under his shadow : they shall live and be satisfied with corn, and he shall flower as a vine : his memorial shall be to Ephraim as the wine of Libanus.
9 What has he to do any more with idols ? I have afflicted him, and I will strengthen him : I am as a leafy juniper tree. From me is thy fruit found.
10 Who is wise, and will understand these things ? or prudent, and will know them ? for the ways of the Lord are straight, and the righteous shall walk in them : but the ungodly shall fall therein.