Read Hosea 6 of the KJV to discover the profound insights it holds for us on this blessed day. For more verses, check out the Book of Hosea.
Hosea 6 Summary
Hosea 6 begins with a call to repentance, urging Israel to return to the Lord who has wounded them but will also heal and revive them. The chapter contrasts the transient nature of human faithfulness with God’s steadfast love and mercy. It acknowledges Israel’s shallow repentance and insincere commitments, emphasizing God’s desire for genuine transformation rather than superficial offerings. Hosea 6 underscores the importance of knowing God and obeying His commandments, contrasting their faithlessness with God’s faithfulness. It sets the stage for future prophetic warnings and appeals for Israel to turn away from their sins and seek true reconciliation with their loving and merciful God.
Hosea 6:1-11 KJV
Israel and Judah are Unrepentant
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.
2. After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
3. Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto 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 early dew it goeth away.
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.
6. For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
7. But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.
8. Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.
9. And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.
10. I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.
11. Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.
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