1 Ese día los israelitas dirán: «¡Vengan, volvamos al Señor! Él es quien nos ha desgarrado, y él será quien nos sane. 2 En tan sólo dos o tres días nos sanará por completo y entonces podremos vivir siempre bajo su protección. ¡No vacilemos en buscar al Señor! 3 ¡No nos cansemos de ir en busca del Señor! Si lo hacemos, podemos estar seguros de que él vendrá a nuestro encuentro. Eso es tan seguro como el hecho de que el sol alumbra cada día. Eso será así, tan seguro como el hecho de que la lluvia cae en el tiempo oportuno y riega la tierra». 4 El Señor dice: «Efraín y Judá, ¿qué haré con ustedes? Pues su amor hacia mí es tan inconstante, se desvanece tan pronto, como lo hacen las nubes de la mañana y como desaparece como el rocío. 5 Yo envié a mis profetas para advertirles del destino funesto que les espera; yo los he herido con la dureza de las palabras que les he enviado, incluso amenazándolos de muerte. Sepan que de repente, sin advertencia alguna, mi juicio realmente los matará como si fuera un rayo fulminante. 6 Lo que más quiero de ustedes no son sus sacrificios rituales, sino que amen a Dios y a su prójimo; lo que más quiero de ustedes no son sus ofrendas, sino que me reconozcan y respeten como su Dios. 7 Pero como Adán, han desobedecido mi convenio, han despreciado mi amor. 8 »Galaad es una ciudad de gente malvada, las huellas de la violencia están por todas partes. 9 Sus sacerdotes son como bandas de ladrones, que se esconden para sorprender y caer sobre sus víctimas; en el camino que lleva a Siquén cometen toda clase de maldades. 10 »Sí, yo he visto una cosa horrible en Israel: Efraín me ha sido infiel y se ha ido tras la idolatría; Israel se ha corrompido por completo. 11 »También para ti, Judá, tengo preparado tu castigo, cuando haya hecho que mi pueblo regrese a su tierra.
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Cross references (11)
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- 1 Job 5:18; Deuteronomy 32:39; 1 Samuel 2:6; Lamentations 3:40–41; Hosea 14:4
- 2 2 Kings 20:5; 1 Corinthians 15:4; Isaiah 26:19; Ezekiel 37:11–13; Hosea 13:14
- 3 Jeremiah 24:7; Hosea 14:5; Proverbs 2:1–5; Psalm 72:6; Philippians 3:13–15
- 4 Hosea 11:8; Hosea 13:3; Psalm 78:34–37; Psalm 106:12–13; Luke 13:7–9
- 5 Jeremiah 23:29; Jeremiah 1:10; Hebrews 4:12; Jeremiah 5:14; Romans 2:5
- 6 Matthew 9:13; Matthew 12:7; Proverbs 21:3; 1 Samuel 15:22; Amos 5:21
- 7 Genesis 3:11; Jeremiah 9:6; Hosea 8:1; Hosea 5:7; Job 31:33
- 8 Hosea 12:11; Micah 7:2; Hosea 4:2; Psalm 59:2; Jeremiah 11:19
- 9 Proverbs 1:11–19; Zephaniah 3:3; Hosea 7:1; Hosea 5:1; Ezekiel 22:9
- 10 Hosea 5:3; Jeremiah 23:14; Ezekiel 23:5; Jeremiah 3:6; Jeremiah 5:30–31
- 11 Joel 3:13; Job 42:10; Micah 4:12; Jeremiah 51:33; Revelation 14:15
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As God, when teaching them His will in Hosea the prophet, said, "I desire mercy rather than sacrifice, and the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings." Besides, our Lord also exhorted them to the same effect, when He said, "But if ye had known what [this] meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the …
In the epistle entitled "To the Hebrews" it is said, "To do good and to communicate, forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased." And so, when it is written, "I desire mercy rather than sacrifice," nothing else is meant than that one sacrifice is preferred to another; for that which in common speech is called sacrifice is …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
This, for example, was His complaint against certain Jews, when He said, "My mercy is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away." And His meaning is like this; "I indeed have supplied all my part, but ye, as a hot sun coming over scatters both the cloud and the dew, and makes them vanish, so …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
And in the person of these the Prophet Osee says plainly, After two days will He revive us, and in the third day we shall rise again, and shall live in His sight.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
… according to the flesh." This prophet has also foretold the resurrection of Christ on the third day, as it behoved to be foretold, with prophetic loftiness, when he says, "He will heal us after two days, and in the third day we shall rise again." In agreement with this the apostle says to us, "If ye be risen with Christ, …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)