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  "kind": "Chapter",
  "metadata": {
    "generated": "2026-08-22T14:14:13Z",
    "language": "en",
    "book": "hosea",
    "chapter": 14
  },
  "data": {
    "n": 14,
    "bookSlug": "hosea",
    "bookCode": "HOS",
    "refId": "",
    "title": "",
    "translation": null,
    "segments": [],
    "lines": [],
    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "HOS-14:1",
        "verseRef": "HOS.14.1",
        "text": "Israel, return to Yahweh your God;\nfor you have fallen because of your sin."
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "HOS-14:2",
        "verseRef": "HOS.14.2",
        "text": "Take words with you, and return to Yahweh.\nTell him, “Forgive all our sins,\nand accept that which is good:\nso we offer our lips like bulls."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "HOS-14:3",
        "verseRef": "HOS.14.3",
        "text": "Assyria can’t save us.\nWe won’t ride on horses;\nneither will we say any more to the work of our hands, ‘Our gods!’\nfor in you the fatherless finds mercy.”"
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "HOS-14:4",
        "verseRef": "HOS.14.4",
        "text": "“I will heal their waywardness.\nI will love them freely;\nfor my anger is turned away from him."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "HOS-14:5",
        "verseRef": "HOS.14.5",
        "text": "I will be like the dew to Israel.\nHe will blossom like the lily,\nand send down his roots like Lebanon."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "HOS-14:6",
        "verseRef": "HOS.14.6",
        "text": "His branches will spread,\nand his beauty will be like the olive tree,\nand his fragrance like Lebanon."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "HOS-14:7",
        "verseRef": "HOS.14.7",
        "text": "Men will dwell in his shade.\nThey will revive like the grain,\nand blossom like the vine.\nTheir fragrance will be like the wine of Lebanon."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "HOS-14:8",
        "verseRef": "HOS.14.8",
        "text": "Ephraim, what have I to do any more with idols?\nI answer, and will take care of him.\nI am like a green cypress tree;\nfrom me your fruit is found.”"
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "HOS-14:9",
        "verseRef": "HOS.14.9",
        "text": "Who is wise, that he may understand these things?\nWho is prudent, that he may know them?\nFor the ways of Yahweh are right,\nand the righteous walk in them;\nBut the rebellious stumble in them."
      }
    ]
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