¹Israel, return to Yahweh your God; for you have fallen because of your sin.

¹Povrni se, o Izrael, prav h GOSPODU, svojemu Bogu, kajti padel si po pregrehi svoji.

²Take 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.

²Vzemite s seboj besede in vrnite se h GOSPODU; recite mu: Odpusti vso pregreho in sprejmi nas milostljivo, in bomo prinašali sad ustnic kot daritve.

³Assyria 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.”

³Asirija nas ne bo rešila; na konjih nočemo jezditi in nikdar več ne porečemo rok svojih izdelku: naš bog si! Kajti pri tebi najde sirota usmiljenje.

⁴“I will heal their waywardness. I will love them freely; for my anger is turned away from him.

⁴Ozdravim njih odpad, rad jih hočem ljubiti; kajti jeza moja se je odvrnila od njih.

⁵I will be like the dew to Israel. He will blossom like the lily, and send down his roots like Lebanon.

⁵Bodem kakor rosa Izraelu, cvetel bo kakor lilija in poganjal korenine kakor Libanon.

⁶His branches will spread, and his beauty will be like the olive tree, and his fragrance like Lebanon.

⁶Razprostro se njegove veje, in lepota njegova bode kakor oljka in duh njegov kakor Libanon.

⁷Men will dwell in his shade. They will revive like the grain, and blossom like the vine. Their fragrance will be like the wine of Lebanon.

⁷Kateri bodo prebivali v senci njegovi, bodo zopet pridelovali žito in zeleneli kakor vinska trta, katere sloves bo kakor vina libanonskega.

⁸Ephraim, what have I to do any more with idols? I answer, and will take care of him. I am like a green fir tree; from me your fruit is found.”

⁸Efraim poreče: Kaj hočem še z maliki? – Jaz sem ga uslišal in se nanj oziram. Jaz sem kakor zeleneča cipresa. Iz mene se najde sad na tebi.Kdor je moder, bo razumel to; kdor je razumen, bo to spoznal. Kajti ravna so pota GOSPODOVA in pravični bodo hodili po njih, ali prestopniki padejo na njih.

⁹Who 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.

⁹Kdor je moder, bo razumel to; kdor je razumen, bo to spoznal. Kajti ravna so pota GOSPODOVA in pravični bodo hodili po njih, ali prestopniki padejo na njih.