Osee 14:3
Take with you words, and return to the Lord, and say to him: Take away all iniquity, and receive the good: and we will render the calves of our lips.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Tollite vobiscum verba, et convertimini ad Dominum ; et dicite ei : Omnem aufer iniquitatem, accipe bonum, et reddemus vitulos labiorum nostrorum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- λάβετε μεθ᾽ ἑαυτῶν λόγους καὶ ἐπιστράφητε πρὸς Κύριον τὸν θεὸν ὑμῶν· εἴπατε αὐτῷ ὅπως μὴ λάβητε ἀδικίαν καὶ λάβητε ἀγαθά, καὶ ἀνταποδώσομεν καρπὸν χειλέων ἡμῶν.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- קְח֤וּ עִמָּכֶם֙ דְּבָרִ֔ים וְשׁ֖וּבוּ אֶל יְהוָ֑ה אִמְר֣וּ אֵלָ֗יו כָּל תִּשָּׂ֤א עָוֺן֙ וְקַח ט֔וֹב וּֽנְשַׁלְּמָ֥ה פָרִ֖ים שְׂפָתֵֽינוּ
Haydock's commentary
Words. In captivity, legal victims cannot be offered. (Calmet)
But a contrite heart is always acceptable, Psalm l.
Good. While engaged in sin, (Haydock) "we can offer thee nothing good."
Calves: victims of praise. (St. Jerome)
Hebrew parim. Septuagint omit m, (Haydock) and render fruit. They are followed by the Arabic and Syriac as well as by the apostle, Hebrews xiii. 15. (Calmet)
We will offer what victims we please. (Estius) (Psalms lxix. 23., and lxv. 13.)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Cyprian Treatise IV
Also in Hosea: “Be thou converted, O Israel, to the Lord thy God, because thou art weakened by thine iniquities. Take many with you, and be converted to the Lord your God; worship Him, and say, Thou art mighty to put away our sins; that ye may not receive iniquity, but that ye may receive good things.”