Hosea 6:1

New American Bible - revised edition

“Come, let us return to the Lord, For it is he who has torn, but he will heal us; he has struck down, but he will bind our wounds.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 30:6

By the king’s command, the couriers, with the letters written by the king and his princes, went through all Israel and Judah. They said: “Israelites, return to the Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, that he may return to you, the remnant left from the hands of the Assyrian kings.

Job 16:9

His wrath tears and assails me, he gnashes his teeth against me; My enemy looks daggers at me.

Job 22:23

If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored; if you put iniquity far from your tent,

Job 34:29

If he is silent, who then can condemn? If he hides his face, who then can behold him, whether nation or individual?

Job 5:18

For he wounds, but he binds up; he strikes, but his hands give healing.

Psalm 30:7

Complacent, I once said, “I shall never be shaken.”

Psalm 6:2

Do not reprove me in your anger, Lord, nor punish me in your wrath.

Psalm 71:20

Whatever bitter afflictions you sent me, you would turn and revive me. From the watery depths of the earth once more raise me up.

Ecclesiastes 3:3

A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to tear down, and a time to build.

Isaiah 17:7

On that day people shall turn to their maker, their eyes shall look to the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 2:3

Many peoples shall come and say: “Come, let us go up to the Lord’s mountain, to the house of the God of Jacob, That he may instruct us in his ways, and we may walk in his paths.” For from Zion shall go forth instruction, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

Isaiah 30:22

You shall defile your silver-plated idols and your gold-covered images; You shall throw them away like filthy rags, you shall say, “Get out!”

Isaiah 30:26

The light of the moon will be like the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times greater, like the light of seven days, On the day the Lord binds up the wounds of his people and heals the bruises left by his blows.

Isaiah 55:7

Let the wicked forsake their way, and sinners their thoughts; Let them turn to the Lord to find mercy; to our God, who is generous in forgiving.

Jeremiah 3:22

Return, rebellious children! I will heal your rebellions. “Here we are! We belong to you, for you are the Lord, our God.

Jeremiah 30:12

For thus says the Lord: Incurable is your wound, grievous your injury;

Jeremiah 30:17

For I will restore your health; I will heal your injuries—oracle of the Lord. “The outcast” they have called you, “whom no one looks for.”

Jeremiah 33:5

men come to battle the Chaldeans, and to fill these houses with the corpses of those whom I have struck down in my raging anger, when I hid my face from this city because of all their wickedness.

Jeremiah 33:6

Look! I am bringing the city recovery and healing; I will heal them and reveal to them an abundance of lasting peace.

Jeremiah 50:4

In those days and at that time—oracle of the Lord— Israelite and Judahite shall come together, Weeping as they come, to seek the Lord, their God;

Jeremiah 50:5

They shall ask for Zion, seeking out the way. “Come, let us join ourselves to the Lord in an everlasting covenant, never to be forgotten.”

Lamentations 3:11

He turned me aside and tore me apart, leaving me ravaged.

Hosea 11:10

They shall follow the Lord, who roars like a lion; When he roars, his children shall come frightened from the west,

Hosea 12:6

The Lord is the God of hosts, the Lord is his name!

Hosea 14:1

Samaria has become guilty, for she has rebelled against her God. They shall fall by the sword, their infants shall be dashed to pieces, their pregnant women shall be ripped open.

Hosea 14:4

Assyria will not save us, nor will we mount horses; We will never again say, ‘Our god,’ to the work of our hands; for in you the orphan finds compassion.”

Hosea 3:5

Afterward the Israelites will turn back and seek the Lord, their God, and David, their king; They will come trembling to the Lord and to his bounty, in the last days.

Leviticus 14:48

If the priest finds, when he comes to the house, that the infection has in fact not spread in the house after the plastering, he shall declare the house clean, since the infection has been healed.

Zephaniah 2:1

Gather, gather yourselves together, O nation without shame!

Deuteronomy 32:39

See now that I, I alone, am he, and there is no god besides me. It is I who bring both death and life, I who inflict wounds and heal them, and from my hand no one can deliver.

1 Samuel 2:6

“The Lord puts to death and gives life, casts down to Sheol and brings up again.

1 Samuel 7:3

Then Samuel addressed the whole house of Israel: “If you would return to the Lord with your whole heart, remove your foreign gods and your Astartes, fix your hearts on the Lord, and serve him alone, then the Lord will deliver you from the hand of the Philistines.”