Hosea 6:4

O Ephrayim, what shall I do unto thee? 1 O Yehudah, what shall I do with thee? 1 For your chesed (faithfulness, loyalty) is as an anan boker (morning cloud), and as the early dew that disappears. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away.

In Context

3Then shall we know, if we follow on to know Hashem; 1 His going forth is established as the shachar (dawn); 1 and He shall come unto us as the geshem (winter rain), 1 as the malkosh (spring rain) + 6:3 i.e., as the latter and former rain, which is the winter and spring rain unto ha'aretz. 1

5Therefore have I cut them to pieces with the nevi'im; 1 I have slain them by the words of My mouth; 1 thy mishpatim are as the ohr (light, lightning) that goeth forth. 1

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Cross References

Judges 3:12And the Bnei Yisroel did rah again in the sight of Hashem; and Hashem strengthened Eglon Melech Moav against Yisroel, because they had done rah in the sight of Hashem.

Psalms 106:12Then believed they in His Devarim; 1 they sang His tehillah. 1

Jeremiah 3:10And yet for all this her treacherous achot Yehudah hath not returned unto Me with her kol lev, but in sheker (falsity, pretense, an insincere religious spirit), saith Hashem.

Jeremiah 5:7How shall I forgive thee for this? 1 Thy banim have forsaken Me, 1 and sworn by them that are no elohim; 1 when I had fed them to the full, 1 they then committed adultery, 1 and trooped to the bais zonah. 1

Jeremiah 5:23But HaAm Hazeh hath 1 a lev sorer (stubborn heart) and moreh (rebellious); 1 they have revolted and departed. 1

Jeremiah 34:15And recently ye turned, and did hayashar (the right) in My sight, in proclaiming deror (liberty) every ish to his neighbor; and ye cut a Brit (covenant) before Me in the Beis which is called by Shmi;

Matthew Henry on Hosea 6:2-4

Penitential Resolutions; Promises. ( b. c. 758.) 1 Come, and let us return unto the Lord : for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. 2 After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. 3 Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord : his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth. These may be taken either as the words of the prophet to… Read the whole commentary →

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