Come Back Come House to Your Papa
The last chapter na the invitation. Come back with your words ready, admit say Assyria and horse no fit save, stop to call tins wey hand make gods. Our Papa promise to love dem free, to be like dew for dem, and e talk am plain say na from am dia fruit dey come.
14 1Come back, Israel, to your Papa; because na your sins make you stumble.
2Come back to our Papa with word ready for mouth; tell am: “Carry all our guilt comot and receive us with grace, so we fit offer di fruit of our lips. 3Assyria no go save us; we no go ride for horse back. We no go ever again call di work wey our own hand make “our gods,” because na inside you di pikin wey no get papa dey find papa tender mercy wey dey pain belle.”
4“I go heal dia waywardness; I go love dem free, because my vex don turn comot from dem. a a v4 Hosea close for di very place wey di Papa always dey long to bring im pikin dem: healed, and loved free — no be because dem earn am, but because im heart turn face house. 5I go be like dew to Israel; e go blossom like di lily flower and send root go down like di cedar of Lebanon. 6Im young branch dem go spread out; im fine-fine go be like di olive tree, im sweet smell like di cedar of Lebanon. 7Dem go come back and stay for my shade; dem go flourish like grain and blossom like di vine, and dia name go be like di wine of Lebanon. 8Ephraim, wetin I still get to do with idol again? Na me dey answer and dey watch over you. I be like cypress tree wey dey flourish; na from me your fruit dey come.”
9Whoever get sense, make e understand these things; whoever fit discern, make e sabi dem. Because di ways of our Papa dey correct, and di correct-and-holy people dey waka inside dem, but di rebellious people dey stumble inside dem.
