Hosea 6:1

Hosea 6:1 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)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.
• New International Version (NIV)“Come, let us return to the Lord. He has torn us to pieces but he will heal us; he has injured us but he will bind up our wounds.
• English Standard Version (ESV)"Come, let us return to the Lord; for he has torn us, that he may heal us; he has struck us down, and he will bind us up.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Come, and let us return to the Lord; For He has torn, but He will heal us; He has stricken, but He will bind us up.

Context of Hosea 6:1

Come, let us return to the LORD. For He has torn us to pieces, but He will heal us; He has wounded us, but He will bind up our wounds. 2After two days He will revive us; on the third day He will raise us up, that we may live in His presence. 3So let us know— let us press on to know the LORD. As surely as the sun rises, He will appear; He will come to us like the rain, like the spring showers that water the earth.

Hosea 6:1 word by word

לְכוּ֙ וְנָשׁ֣וּבָה אֶל־יְהוָ֔ה כִּ֛י ה֥וּא טָרָ֖ף וְיִרְפָּאֵ֑נוּ יַ֖ךְ וְיַחְבְּשֵֽׁנוּ׃Read the interlinear

• Comeהָלַךְhâlak · to go: come!H1980
• let us returnשׁוּבshûb · to return: returnH7725
• toאֶל'êl 'el · to(wards)H413
• the LORDיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068
• Forכִּיkîy · forH3588
• Heהוּאhû' hîy' · he/she/itH1931
• has torn us to piecesטָרַףţâraph · to tearH2963
• but He will heal usרָפָאrâphâ' râphâh · to healH7495
• He has wounded usנָכָהnâkâh · to smiteH5221
• but He will bind up our woundsחָבַשׁchâbash · to saddle/tieH2280

Cross-references for Hosea 6:1

• Hosea 5:15Then I will return to My place until they admit their guilt and seek My face; in their affliction they will earnestly seek Me.”
• Hosea 14:1Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled by your iniquity.
• Isaiah 2:3And many peoples will come and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us His ways so that we may walk in His paths.” For the law will go forth from Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
• Isaiah 55:7Let the wicked man forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that He may have compassion, and to our God, for He will freely pardon.
• Jeremiah 3:22“Return, O faithless children, and I will heal your faithlessness.” “Here we are. We come to You, for You are the LORD our God.
• Jeremiah 50:4“In those days and at that time, declares the LORD, the children of Israel and the children of Judah will come together, weeping as they come, and will seek the LORD their God.
• Lamentations 3:40Let us examine and test our ways, and turn back to the LORD.
• Zephaniah 2:1Gather yourselves, gather together, O shameful nation,
• Hosea 5:12So I am like a moth to Ephraim, and like decay to the house of Judah.
• Hosea 13:7So like a lion I will pounce on them; like a leopard I will lurk by the path.
• Deuteronomy 32:39See now that I am He; there is no God besides Me. I bring death and I give life; I wound and I heal, and there is no one who can deliver from My hand.
• 1 Samuel 2:6The LORD brings death and gives life; He brings down to Sheol and raises up.
• Job 5:18For He wounds, but He also binds; He strikes, but His hands also heal.
• Job 34:29But when He remains silent, who can condemn Him? When He hides His face, who can see Him? Yet He watches over both man and nation,
• Psalms 30:7O LORD, You favored me; You made my mountain stand strong. When You hid Your face, I was dismayed.
• Isaiah 30:22So you will desecrate your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away like menstrual cloths, saying to them, “Be gone!”

Commentaries on Hosea 6:1

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 1Come, and let us return unto the Lord - When God had purposed to abandon them, and they found that he had returned to his place - to his temple, where alone he could be successfully sought; they, feeling their weakness, and the fickleness, weariness, and unfaithfulness of their idols and allies, now resolve to "return to the Lord;" and, referring to what he said, Hosea 5:14; : "I will tear and go away;" they say, he "hath torn, but he will heal us;" their…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 1Come and let us return unto the Lord - These words depend closely on the foregoing. They are words put into their mouth by God Himself, with which or with the like, they should exhort one another to return to God. Before, when God smote them, they had gone to Assyria; now they should turn to Him, owning, not only that He who “tore” has the power and the will to “heal” them, but that He tore, “in order to” heal them; He smote them, “in order to” bind them…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 1An exhortation to repentance. (Hos. 6:1-3) Israel's instability and breach of the covenant. (Hos. 6:4-11) Verses 1-3 Those who have gone from God by consent, and in a body, drawing one another to sin, should, by consent and in a body, return to him, which will be for his glory, and their good. It will be of great use for support under afflictions, and to encourage our repentance, to keep up good thoughts of God, and of his purposes and designs concerning…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-3After God judged Israel, the religious leaders asked the people to repent and know the Lord. The rains that came in early spring were essential for growing crops.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-11At Ho 6:4 a new discourse, complaining of them, begins; for Ho 6:1-3 evidently belong to Ho 5:15, and form the happy termination of Israel's punishment: primarily, the return from Babylon; ultimately, the return from their present long dispersion. Ho 6:8 perhaps refers to the murder of Pekahiah; the discourse cannot be later than Pekah's reign, for it was under it that Gilead was carried into captivity (2Ki 15:29). 1. let us return--in order that God who…Read the comment

Topics related to Hosea 6:1

• Afflictions and Adversities
• Backsliders
• Repentance

In the dictionaries

• Consent
• Follow
• Hosea
• Prophecy; Prophets
• Sin (1)
• Untoward
• Zechariah, Book of

Commentaries on Hosea 6

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings