Hosea 14:7-9

Revised Standard Version

⁸ O E′phraim, what have I to do with idols?
    It is I who answer and look after you.^[c]
I am like an evergreen cypress,
    from me comes your fruit.

⁹ Whoever is wise, let him understand these things;
    whoever is discerning, let him know them;
for the ways of the Lord are right,
    and the upright walk in them,
    but transgressors stumble in them.