A PLEA TO REPENT

14 Israel, return to the Lord your God,s

for you have stumbled in your iniquity.t

2 Take words of repentance with youu

and return to the Lord.

Say to him, “Forgive all our iniquity

and accept what is good,

so that we may repay you

with praiseE from ourF lips.v

3 Assyria will not save us,w

we will not ride on horses,x

and we will no longer proclaim, ‘Our gods!’y

to the work of our hands.z

For the fatherless receives compassion in you.”aa