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Hosea 6 Revised Version with Apocrypha

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1 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.
1 “Come! Let’s return to Yahweh; for he has torn us to pieces, and he will heal us; he has injured us, and he will bind up our wounds.
2 After two days will he revive us: on the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live before him.
2 After two days he will revive us. On the third day he will raise us up, and we will live before him.
3 And let us know, let us follow on to know the LORD; his going forth is sure as the morning: and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter rain that watereth the earth.
3 Let’s acknowledge Yahweh. Let’s press on to know Yahweh. As surely as the sun rises, Yahweh will appear. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain that waters the earth.”
4 O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the dew that goeth early away.
4 “Ephraim, what shall I do to you? Judah, what shall I do to you? For your love is like a morning cloud, and like the dew that disappears early.
5 Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are [as ]the light that goeth forth.
5 Therefore I have cut them to pieces with the prophets; I killed them with the words of my mouth. Your judgments are like a flash of lightning.
6 For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
6 For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
7 But they like Adam have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.
7 But they, like Adam, have broken the covenant. They were unfaithful to me there.
8 Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, it is stained with blood.
8 Gilead is a city of those who work iniquity; it is stained with blood.
9 And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way toward Shechem; yea, they have committed lewdness.
9 As gangs of robbers wait to ambush a man, so the company of priests murder on the path toward Shechem, committing shameful crimes.
10 In the house of Israel I have seen an horrible thing: there whoredom is [found ]in Ephraim, Israel is defiled.
10 In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing. There is prostitution in Ephraim. Israel is defiled.
11 Also, O Judah, there is an harvest appointed for thee, when I bring again the captivity of my people.
11 “Also, Judah, there is a harvest appointed for you, when I restore the fortunes of my people.
Cross references (11)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 Job 5:18; Deuteronomy 32:39; 1 Samuel 2:6; Lamentations 3:40–41; Hosea 14:4
  2. 2 2 Kings 20:5; 1 Corinthians 15:4; Isaiah 26:19; Ezekiel 37:11–13; Hosea 13:14
  3. 3 Jeremiah 24:7; Hosea 14:5; Proverbs 2:1–5; Psalm 72:6; Philippians 3:13–15
  4. 4 Hosea 11:8; Hosea 13:3; Psalm 78:34–37; Psalm 106:12–13; Luke 13:7–9
  5. 5 Jeremiah 23:29; Jeremiah 1:10; Hebrews 4:12; Jeremiah 5:14; Romans 2:5
  6. 6 Matthew 9:13; Matthew 12:7; Proverbs 21:3; 1 Samuel 15:22; Amos 5:21
  7. 7 Genesis 3:11; Jeremiah 9:6; Hosea 8:1; Hosea 5:7; Job 31:33
  8. 8 Hosea 12:11; Micah 7:2; Hosea 4:2; Psalm 59:2; Jeremiah 11:19
  9. 9 Proverbs 1:11–19; Zephaniah 3:3; Hosea 7:1; Hosea 5:1; Ezekiel 22:9
  10. 10 Hosea 5:3; Jeremiah 23:14; Ezekiel 23:5; Jeremiah 3:6; Jeremiah 5:30–31
  11. 11 Joel 3:13; Job 42:10; Micah 4:12; Jeremiah 51:33; Revelation 14:15

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Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Quotes verse 6:6 Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies (Book IV, Chapter XVII)

    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 …

    Read in context · Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1 (1885)

  2. Quotes verse 6:6 Augustine of Hippo, The City of God (Book X, Chapters 4–6)

    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)

  3. Quotes verse 6:4 John Chrysostom, Homilies on the Gospel of Matthew (Homily XXII)

    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)

  4. Quotes verse 6:2 Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures (Lecture XIV)

    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)

  5. Quotes verse 6:2 Augustine of Hippo, The City of God (Book XVIII, Chapters 26–29)

    … 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)