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 Adonai. For He has torn, but He will heal us. He has smitten, but He will bind us up. 2After two days He will revive us. On the third day He will raise us up, and we will live in His presence. 3So let us know, let us strive to know Adonai. Like dawn His going forth is certain. He will come to us like the rain, like the latter rain watering the earth.

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 5:15I will go and return to My place until they admit their guilt. Then they will seek My face. In their distress they will seek Me earnestly:
• Hosea 14:1Samaria will bear her guilt, for she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword, their infants dashed to pieces, their pregnant women ripped open.
• Isaiah 2:3Then many peoples will go and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of Adonai, to the House of the God of Jacob! Then He will teach us His ways, and we will walk in His paths.” For Torah will go forth from Zion and the word of Adonai from Jerusalem.
• Isaiah 55:7Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous one his thoughts, let him return to Adonai, so He may have compassion on him, and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.
• Jeremiah 3:22“Return, backsliding children! I will heal your backsliding.” “Yes, we will come to You for You are Adonai Eloheinu.
• Jeremiah 50:4“In those days and at that time” —it is a declaration of Adonai— “the children of Israel will come, together with the children of Judah, weeping as they come, and will seek Adonai their God.
• Lamentations 3:40Let us examine and test our ways, and let us return to Adonai.
• Zephaniah 2:1Gather together! Gather together, O shameless nation—
• Hosea 5:12So, I will be like a moth to Ephraim and like decay to the house of Judah.
• Hosea 13:7So I became like a lion to them— like a leopard lying in wait by the way.
• Deuteronomy 32:39See now that I, I am He! There are no other gods beside Me. I bring death and give life, I have wounded but I will heal, and none can rescue from My hand.’
• 1 Samuel 2:6Adonai causes death and makes alive, He brings down to Sheol and raises up.
• Job 5:18For He inflicts pain, but He also binds up; He injures, yet His hands also heal.
• Job 34:29“But if He is quiet, who can condemn Him? If He hides His face, who can see Him? Yet He is over a nation and an individual alike,
• Psalms 30:7When I felt secure, I said: “I will never be shaken.”
• Isaiah 30:22You will defile your graven images overlaid with silver, and your metal images covered with gold. You will throw them away like a menstrual cloth. You will say, “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