Hosea 6:1

New Century Version

“Come, let’s go back to the Lord. He has hurt us, but he will heal us. He has wounded us, but he will bandage our wounds.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:39

“Now you will see that I am the one God! There is no god but me. I send life and death; I can hurt, and I can heal. No one can escape from me.

Job 5:18

God hurts, but he also bandages up; he injures, but his hands also heal.

1 Samuel 2:6

“The Lord sends death, and he brings to life. He sends people to the grave, and he raises them to life again.

Hosea 14:4

The Lord says, “I will forgive them for leaving me and will love them freely, because I am not angry with them anymore.

Isaiah 55:7

The wicked should stop doing wrong, and they should stop their evil thoughts. They should return to the Lord so he may have mercy on them. They should come to our God, because he will freely forgive them.

Jeremiah 30:17

I will bring back your health and heal your injuries,” says the Lord, “because other people forced you away. They said about you, ‘No one cares about Jerusalem!’ ”

Isaiah 2:3

Many nations will come and say, “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the Temple of the God of Jacob. Then God will teach us his ways, and we will obey his teachings.” His teachings will go out from Jerusalem; the message of the Lord will go out from Jerusalem.

Job 34:29

But if God keeps quiet, who can blame him? If he hides his face, who can see him? God still rules over both nations and persons alike.

Hosea 14:1

Israel, return to the Lord your God, because your sins have made you fall.

Jeremiah 50:4

The Lord says, “At that time the people of Israel and Judah will come together. They will cry and look for the Lord their God.

Jeremiah 3:22

“Come back to me, you unfaithful children, and I will forgive you for being unfaithful.” “Yes, we will come to you, because you are the Lord our God.

Isaiah 30:26

At that time the light from the moon will be bright like the sun, and the light from the sun will be seven times brighter than now, like the light of seven days. These things will happen when the Lord bandages his broken people and heals the hurts he gave them.

Jeremiah 33:5

‘Some people will come to fight against the Babylonians. They will fill these houses with the bodies of people I killed in my hot anger. I have turned away from this city because of all the evil its people have done.

Psalm 30:7

Lord, in your kindness you made my mountain safe. But when you turned away, I was frightened.

Jeremiah 30:12

This is what the Lord said: “You people have a wound that cannot be cured; your injury will not heal.

Isaiah 30:22

You have statues covered with silver and gold, but you will ruin them for further use. You will throw them away like filthy rags and say, “Go away!”

Zephaniah 2:1

Gather together, gather, you unwanted people.

1 Samuel 7:3

Samuel spoke to the whole group of Israel, saying, “If you’re turning back to the Lord with all your hearts, you must remove your foreign gods and your idols of Ashtoreth. You must give yourselves fully to the Lord and serve only him. Then he will save you from the Philistines.”

Job 16:9

God attacks me and tears me with anger; he grinds his teeth at me; my enemy stares at me with his angry eyes.

Psalm 6:2

Lord, have mercy on me because I am weak. Heal me, Lord, because my bones ache.

Psalm 71:20

You have given me many troubles and bad times, but you will give me life again. When I am almost dead, you will keep me alive.

Ecclesiastes 3:3

There is a time to kill and a time to heal. There is a time to destroy and a time to build.

Isaiah 17:7

At that time people will look to God, their Maker; their eyes will see the Holy One of Israel.

Jeremiah 33:6

“ ‘But then I will bring health and healing to the people there. I will heal them and let them enjoy great peace and safety.

Jeremiah 50:5

Those people will ask how to go to Jerusalem and will start in that direction. They will come and join themselves to the Lord. They will make an agreement with him that will last forever, an agreement that will never be forgotten.

Lamentations 3:11

He led me the wrong way and let me stray and left me without help.

Hosea 11:10

They will go after the Lord, and he will roar like a lion. When he roars, his children will hurry to him from the west.

Hosea 12:6

You must return to your God; love him, do what is just, and always trust in him as your God.

Leviticus 14:48

“Suppose after new stones and plaster have been put in a house, the priest checks it again and the mildew has not spread. Then the priest will announce that the house is clean, because the mildew is gone.

2 Chronicles 30:6

At the king’s command, the messengers took letters from him and his officers all through Israel and Judah. This is what the letters said: People of Israel, return to the Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel. Then God will return to you who are still alive, who have escaped from the kings of Assyria.

Job 22:23

If you return to the Almighty, you will be blessed again. So remove evil from your house.

Hosea 3:5

After this, the people of Israel will return to the Lord their God and follow him and the king from David’s family. In the last days they will turn in fear to the Lord, and he will bless them.