Reading 1 and//usccb.org/bible/hosea/14:2 HOS 14:2-10 Thus says the LORDandReturn, O Israel, to the LORD, your Godyou have collapsed through your guilt.Take with you words,and return to the LORDSay to him, Forgive all iniquity,and receive what is good, that we may renderas offerings the bullocks from our stalls.Assyria will not save us,nor shall we have horses to mountWe shall say no more, ‘Our god,’to the work of our handsfor in you the orphan finds compassion.”I will heal their defection, says the LORD,I will love them freelyfor my wrath is turned away from them.I will be like th