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. He has torn us to pieces; now he will heal us. He has injured us; now he will bandage our wounds. 2In just a short time he will restore us, so that we may live in his presence. 3Oh, that we might know the Lord! Let us press on to know him. He will respond to us as surely as the arrival of dawn or the coming of rains in early spring.”

Hosea 6:1 word by word

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

Words taken from the KJV.

• Comeיָלַךְyâlak · to walkH3212
• and let us returnשׁוּבshûb · to return: returnH7725
• unto the Lordיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068
• for he hath tornטָרַףţâraph · to tearH2963
• and he will healרָפָאrâphâ' râphâh · to healH7495
• us; he hath smittenנָכָהnâkâh · to smiteH5221
• and he will bind us upחָבַשׁchâbash · to saddle/tieH2280

Cross-references for Hosea 6:1

• Hosea 5:15Then I will return to my place until they admit their guilt and turn to me. For as soon as trouble comes, they will earnestly search for me.”
• Hosea 14:1Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God, for your sins have brought you down.
• Isaiah 2:3People from many nations will come and say, “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of Jacob’s God. There he will teach us his ways, and we will walk in his paths.” For the Lord’s teaching will go out from Zion; his word will go out from Jerusalem.
• Isaiah 55:7Let the wicked change their ways and banish the very thought of doing wrong. Let them turn to the Lord that he may have mercy on them. Yes, turn to our God, for he will forgive generously.
• Jeremiah 3:22“My wayward children,” says the Lord, “come back to me, and I will heal your wayward hearts.” “Yes, we’re coming,” the people reply, “for you are the Lord our God.
• Jeremiah 50:4“In those coming days,” says the Lord, “the people of Israel will return home together with the people of Judah. They will come weeping and seeking the Lord their God.
• Lamentations 3:40Instead, let us test and examine our ways. Let us turn back to the Lord.
• Zephaniah 2:1Gather together—yes, gather together, you shameless nation.
• Hosea 5:12I will destroy Israel as a moth consumes wool. I will make Judah as weak as rotten wood.
• Hosea 13:7So now I will attack you like a lion, like a leopard that lurks along the road.
• Deuteronomy 32:39Look now; I myself am he! There is no other god but me! I am the one who kills and gives life; I am the one who wounds and heals; no one can be rescued from my powerful hand!
• 1 Samuel 2:6The Lord gives both death and life; he brings some down to the grave but raises others up.
• Job 5:18For though he wounds, he also bandages. He strikes, but his hands also heal.
• Job 34:29But if he chooses to remain quiet, who can criticize him? When he hides his face, no one can find him, whether an individual or a nation.
• Psalms 30:7Your favor, O Lord, made me as secure as a mountain. Then you turned away from me, and I was shattered.
• Isaiah 30:22Then you will destroy all your silver idols and your precious gold images. You will throw them out like filthy rags, saying to them, “Good riddance!”

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