Hosea 6:1

Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he has torn, and he will heal us; he has smitten, and he will bind us up.

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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.

In Context

2After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:39See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.

2 Chronicles 30:6So the posts went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, All of you children of Israel, return unto the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and he will return to the remnant of you, that are escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria.

Job 22:23If you return to the Almighty, you shall be built up, you shall put away iniquity far from your tabernacles.

Psalms 30:7LORD, by your favour you have made my mountain to stand strong: you did hide your face, and I was troubled.

Isaiah 2:3And many people shall go and say, Come all of you, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

Isaiah 30:26Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD binds up the breach of his people, and heals the stroke of their 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 →

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