Hosea 6

A Call to Repentance

1 Come,Is. 1:18; Acts 10:43 and let us return to the Lord;

For Deut. 32:39; Hos. 5:14He has torn, but Jer. 30:17; Hos. 14:4He will heal us;

He has stricken, but He will bind us up.

2 Luke 24:46; Acts 10:40; (1 Cor. 15:4)After two days He will revive us;

On the third day He will raise us up,

That we may live in His sight.

3 Is. 54:13Let us know,

Let us pursue the knowledge of the Lord.

His going forth is established 2 Sam. 23:4as the morning;

Ps. 72:6; Joel 2:23He will come to us Job 29:23like the rain,

Like the latter and former rain to the earth.

4 "O Ephraim, what shall I do to you?

O Judah, what shall I do to you?

For your faithfulness is like a morning cloud,

And like the early dew it goes away.

5 Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets,

I have slain them by (Jer. 23:29)the words of My mouth;

And your judgments arelike light that goes forth.

6 For I desire Matt. 9:13; 12:7mercy and Is. 1:12, 13; (Mic. 6:6–8)not sacrifice,

And the (John 17:3)knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

7 "But like men they transgressed the covenant;

There they dealt treacherously with Me.

8 Hos. 12:11Gilead is a city of evildoers

And defiled with blood.

9 As bands of robbers lie in wait for a man,

So the company of Hos. 5:1priests Jer. 7:9, 10; Hos. 4:2murder on the way to Shechem;

Surely they commit Ezek. 22:9; 23:27; Hos. 2:10lewdness.

10 I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel:

There is the harlotry of Ephraim;

Israel is defiled.

11 Also, O Judah, a harvest is appointed for you,

When I return the captives of My people.