Hosea 6:1
In their affliction they will seek me early, saying, Let us go, and return to the Lord our God; for he has torn, and will heal us;
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
In Context
2he will strike, and bind us up.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:39Behold, behold that I am he, and there is no god beside me: I kill, and I will make to live: I will strike, and I will heal; and there is none who shall deliver out of my hands.
2 Chronicles 30:6And the posts went with the letters from the king and the princes to all Israel and Juda, according to the command of the king, saying, Children of Israel, return to the Lord God of Abraam, and Isaac, and Israel, and bring back them that have escaped even those that were left of the hand of the king of Assyria.
Job 22:23And if you shall turn and humble yourself before the Lord, you have thus removed unrighteousness far from your habitation.
Psalms 30:7I will exult and be glad in your mercy: for you have looked upon my affliction; you have saved my soul from distresses. 1
Isaiah 2:3And many nations shall go and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will tell us his way, and we will walk in it: for out of Sion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord out of Jerusalem.
Isaiah 30:26And the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold in the day when the Lord shall heal the breach of his people, and shall heal the pain of your wound.
Matthew Henry on Hosea 6:1
The closing words of the foregoing chapter gave us some hopes that God and his Israel, notwithstanding their sins and his wrath, might yet be happily brought together again, that they would seek him and he would be found of them; now this chapter carries that matter further, and some join the beginning of this chapter with the end of that, "They will seek me early," saying, "Come and let us return." But God doth again complain of the wickedness of this people; for, though some did repent and reform, the greater… Read the whole commentary →