Hosea 6:1

Good News Translation

The people say, “Let's return to the Lord! He has hurt us, but he will be sure to heal us; he has wounded us, but he will bandage our wounds, won't he?

Cross References

2 Chronicles 30:6

Messengers went out at the command of the king and his officials through all Judah and Israel with the following invitation: “People of Israel, you have survived the Assyrian conquest of the land. Now return to the Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and he will return to you.

Job 16:9

In anger God tears me limb from limb; he glares at me with hate.

Job 22:23

Yes, you must humbly return to God and put an end to all the evil that is done in your house.

Job 34:29

If God decided to do nothing at all, no one could criticize him. If he hid his face, we would be helpless.

Job 5:18

God bandages the wounds he makes; his hand hurts you, and his hand heals.

Psalm 30:7

You were good to me, Lord; you protected me like a mountain fortress. But then you hid yourself from me, and I was afraid.

Psalm 6:2

I am worn out, O Lord; have pity on me! Give me strength; I am completely exhausted

Psalm 71:20

You have sent troubles and suffering on me, but you will restore my strength; you will keep me from the grave.

Ecclesiastes 3:3

the time for killing and the time for healing, the time for tearing down and the time for building.

Isaiah 17:7

When that day comes, people will turn for help to their Creator, the holy God of Israel.

Isaiah 2:3

and their people will say, “Let us go up the hill of the Lord, to the Temple of Israel's God. He will teach us what he wants us to do; we will walk in the paths he has chosen. For the Lord's teaching comes from Jerusalem; from Zion he speaks to his people.”

Isaiah 30:22

You will take your idols plated with silver and your idols covered with gold, and will throw them away like filth, shouting, “Out of my sight!”

Isaiah 30:26

The moon will be as bright as the sun, and the sun will be seven times brighter than usual, like the light of seven days in one. This will all happen when the Lord bandages and heals the wounds he has given his people.

Isaiah 55:7

Let the wicked leave their way of life and change their way of thinking. Let them turn to the Lord, our God; he is merciful and quick to forgive.

Jeremiah 3:22

Return, all of you who have turned away from the Lord; he will heal you and make you faithful. You say, “Yes, we are coming to the Lord because he is our God.

Jeremiah 30:12

The Lord says to his people, “Your wounds are incurable, your injuries cannot be healed.

Jeremiah 30:17

I will make you well again; I will heal your wounds, though your enemies say, ‘Zion is an outcast; no one cares about her.’ I, the Lord, have spoken.”

Jeremiah 33:5

Some will fight against the Babylonians, who will fill the houses with the corpses of those whom I am going to strike down in my anger and fury. I have turned away from this city because of the evil things that its people have done.

Jeremiah 33:6

But I will heal this city and its people and restore them to health. I will show them abundant peace and security.

Jeremiah 50:4

The Lord says, “When that time comes, the people of both Israel and Judah will come weeping, looking for me, their God.

Jeremiah 50:5

They will ask the way to Zion and then go in that direction. They will make an eternal covenant with me and never break it.

Lamentations 3:11

He chased me off the road, tore me to pieces, and left me.

Hosea 11:10

“My people will follow me when I roar like a lion at their enemies. They will hurry to me from the west.

Hosea 12:6

So now, descendants of Jacob, trust in your God and return to him. Be loyal and just, and wait patiently for your God to act.

Hosea 14:1

Return to the Lord your God, people of Israel. Your sin has made you stumble and fall.

Hosea 14:4

The Lord says, “I will bring my people back to me. I will love them with all my heart; no longer am I angry with them.

Hosea 3:5

But the time will come when the people of Israel will once again turn to the Lord their God and to a descendant of David their king. Then they will fear the Lord and will receive his good gifts.

Leviticus 14:48

If, when the priest comes to look, the mildew has not reappeared after the house has been replastered, he shall pronounce the house ritually clean, because the mildew has been completely removed.

Zephaniah 2:1

Shameless nation, come to your senses

Deuteronomy 32:39

“‘I, and I alone, am God; no other god is real. I kill and I give life, I wound and I heal, and no one can oppose what I do.

1 Samuel 2:6

The Lord kills and restores to life; he sends people to the world of the dead and brings them back again.

1 Samuel 7:3

Samuel said to the people of Israel, “If you are going to turn to the Lord with all your hearts, you must get rid of all the foreign gods and the images of the goddess Astarte. Dedicate yourselves completely to the Lord and worship only him, and he will rescue you from the power of the Philistines.”