Hosea 6:1

New English Translation

“Come on! Let’s return to the Lord! He himself has torn us to pieces, but he will heal us! He has injured us, but he will bandage our wounds!

Cross References

2 Chronicles 30:6

Messengers delivered the letters from the king and his officials throughout Israel and Judah. This royal edict read: “O Israelites, return to the Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so he may return to you who have been spared from the kings of Assyria.

Job 16:9

His anger has torn me and persecuted me; he has gnashed at me with his teeth; my adversary locks his eyes on me.

Job 22:23

If you return to the Almighty, you will be built up; if you remove wicked behavior far from your tent,

Job 34:29

But if God is quiet, who can condemn him? If he hides his face, then who can see him? Yet he is over the individual and the nation alike,

Job 5:18

For he wounds, but he also bandages; he strikes, but his hands also heal.

Psalm 30:7

O Lord, in your good favor you made me secure. Then you rejected me and I was terrified.

Psalm 6:2

Have mercy on me, Lord, for I am frail! Heal me, Lord, for my bones are shaking!

Psalm 71:20

Though you have allowed me to experience much trouble and distress, revive me once again! Bring me up once again from the depths of the earth!

Ecclesiastes 3:3

A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;

Isaiah 17:7

At that time men will trust in their creator; they will depend on the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 2:3

many peoples will come and say, “Come, let us go up to the Lord’s mountain, to the temple of the God of Jacob, so he can teach us his requirements, and we can follow his standards.” For Zion will be the center for moral instruction; the Lord will issue edicts from Jerusalem.

Isaiah 30:22

You will desecrate your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away as if they were a menstrual rag, saying to them, “Get out!”

Isaiah 30:26

The light of the full moon will be like the sun’s glare and the sun’s glare will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven days, when the Lord binds up his people’s fractured bones and heals their severe wound.

Isaiah 55:7

The wicked need to abandon their lifestyle and sinful people their plans. They should return to the Lord, and he will show mercy to them, and to their God, for he will freely forgive them.

Jeremiah 3:22

Come back to me, you wayward people. I want to cure your waywardness. Say, ‘Here we are. We come to you because you are the Lord our God.

Jeremiah 30:12

Moreover, the Lord says to the people of Zion, “Your injuries are incurable; your wounds are severe.

Jeremiah 30:17

Yes, I will restore you to health. I will heal your wounds. I, the Lord, affirm it! For you have been called an outcast, Zion, whom no one cares for.”

Jeremiah 33:5

‘The defenders of the city will go out and fight with the Babylonians. But they will only fill those houses and buildings with the dead bodies of the people that I will kill in my anger and my wrath. That will happen because I have decided to turn my back on this city on account of the wicked things they have done.

Jeremiah 33:6

But I will most surely heal the wounds of this city and restore it and its people to health. I will show them abundant peace and security.

Jeremiah 50:4

“When that time comes,” says the Lord, “the people of Israel and Judah will return to the land together. They will come back with tears of repentance as they seek the Lord their God.

Jeremiah 50:5

They will ask the way to Zion; they will turn their faces toward it. They will come and bind themselves to the Lord in a lasting covenant that will never be forgotten.

Lamentations 3:11

He has obstructed my paths and torn me to pieces; he has made me desolate.

Hosea 11:10

He will roar like a lion, and they will follow the Lord; when he roars, his children will come trembling from the west.

Hosea 12:6

But you must return to your God, by maintaining love and justice, and by waiting for your God to return to you.

Hosea 14:1

Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God, for your sin has been your downfall!

Hosea 14:4

“I will heal their waywardness and love them freely, for my anger will turn away from them.

Hosea 3:5

Afterward, the Israelites will turn and seek the Lord their God and their Davidic king. Then they will submit to the Lord in fear and receive his blessings in the future.

Leviticus 14:48

“If, however, the priest enters and examines it, and the infection has not spread in the house after the house has been replastered, then the priest is to pronounce the house clean because the infection has been healed.

Zephaniah 2:1

Bunch yourselves together like straw, you undesirable nation,

Deuteronomy 32:39

“See now that I, indeed I, am he!” says the Lord, “and there is no other god besides me. I kill and give life, I smash and I heal, and none can resist my power.

1 Samuel 2:6

The Lord both kills and gives life; he brings down to the grave and raises up.

1 Samuel 7:3

Samuel said to all the people of Israel, “If you are really turning to the Lord with all your hearts, remove from among you the foreign gods and the images of Ashtoreth. Give your hearts to the Lord and serve only him. Then he will deliver you from the hand of the Philistines.”