Hosea 6:1

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Hosea 6:1–3 · Berean Standard Bible

1 Come, let us return to the LORD. For He has torn us to pieces, but He will heal us; He has wounded us, but He will bind up our wounds.

2 After two days He will revive us; on the third day He will raise us up, that we may live in His presence.

3 So let us know— let us press on to know the LORD. As surely as the sun rises, He will appear; He will come to us like the rain, like the spring showers that water the earth.

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Hosea 5:15

Then I will return to My place until they admit their guilt and seek My face; in their affliction they will earnestly seek Me.”

Hosea 14:1

Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled by your iniquity.

Isaiah 2:3

And many peoples will come and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us His ways so that we may walk in His paths.” For the law will go forth from Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

Isaiah 55:7

Let the wicked man forsake his own way and the unrighteous man his own thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that He may have compassion, and to our God, for He will freely pardon.

Jeremiah 3:22

“Return, O faithless children, and I will heal your faithlessness.” “Here we are. We come to You, for You are the LORD our God.

Jeremiah 50:4

“In those days and at that time, declares the LORD, the children of Israel and the children of Judah will come together, weeping as they come, and will seek the LORD their God.

Lamentations 3:40

Let us examine and test our ways, and turn back to the LORD.

Lamentations 3:41

Let us lift up our hearts and hands to God in heaven:

Zephaniah 2:1

Gather yourselves, gather together, O shameful nation,

Hosea 5:12

So I am like a moth to Ephraim, and like decay to the house of Judah.

Hosea 5:13

When Ephraim saw his sickness and Judah his wound, then Ephraim turned to Assyria and sent to the great king. But he cannot cure you or heal your wound.

Hosea 5:14

For I am like a lion to Ephraim and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I, even I, will tear them to pieces and then go away. I will carry them off where no one can rescue them.

Hosea 13:7

So like a lion I will pounce on them; like a leopard I will lurk by the path.

Hosea 13:8

Like a bear robbed of her cubs I will attack them, and I will tear open their chests. There I will devour them like a lion, like a wild beast would tear them apart.

Hosea 13:9

You are destroyed, O Israel, because you are against Me— against your helper.

Deuteronomy 32:39

See now that I am He; there is no God besides Me. I bring death and I give life; I wound and I heal, and there is no one who can deliver from My hand.

1 Samuel 2:6

The LORD brings death and gives life; He brings down to Sheol and raises up.

Job 5:18

For He wounds, but He also binds; He strikes, but His hands also heal.

Job 34:29

But when He remains silent, who can condemn Him? When He hides His face, who can see Him? Yet He watches over both man and nation,

Psalms 30:7

O LORD, You favored me; You made my mountain stand strong. When You hid Your face, I was dismayed.

Isaiah 30:22

So you will desecrate your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away like menstrual cloths, saying to them, “Be gone!”

Jeremiah 30:12

For this is what the LORD says: “Your injury is incurable; your wound is grievous.

Jeremiah 33:5

The Chaldeans are coming to fight and to fill those places with the corpses of the men I will strike down in My anger and in My wrath. I have hidden My face from this city because of all its wickedness.

Lamentations 3:32

Even if He causes grief, He will show compassion according to His abundant loving devotion.

Lamentations 3:33

For He does not willingly afflict or grieve the sons of men.