Hosea 6:1

New Living Translation

“Come, let us return to the Lord. He has torn us to pieces; now he will heal us. He has injured us; now he will bandage our wounds.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 30:6

At the king’s command, runners were sent throughout Israel and Judah. They carried letters that said: “O people of Israel, return to the Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so that he will return to the few of us who have survived the conquest of the Assyrian kings.

Job 16:9

God hates me and angrily tears me apart. He snaps his teeth at me and pierces me with his eyes.

Job 22:23

If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored— so clean up your life.

Job 34:29

But if he chooses to remain quiet, who can criticize him? When he hides his face, no one can find him, whether an individual or a nation.

Job 5:18

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

Psalm 30:7

Your favor, O Lord, made me as secure as a mountain. Then you turned away from me, and I was shattered.

Psalm 6:2

Have compassion on me, Lord, for I am weak. Heal me, Lord, for my bones are in agony.

Psalm 71:20

You have allowed me to suffer much hardship, but you will restore me to life again and lift me up from the depths of the earth.

Ecclesiastes 3:3

A time to kill and a time to heal. A time to tear down and a time to build up.

Isaiah 17:7

Then at last the people will look to their Creator and turn their eyes to the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 2:3

People from many nations will come and say, “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of Jacob’s God. There he will teach us his ways, and we will walk in his paths.” For the Lord’s teaching will go out from Zion; his word will go out from Jerusalem.

Isaiah 30:22

Then you will destroy all your silver idols and your precious gold images. You will throw them out like filthy rags, saying to them, “Good riddance!”

Isaiah 30:26

The moon will be as bright as the sun, and the sun will be seven times brighter—like the light of seven days in one! So it will be when the Lord begins to heal his people and cure the wounds he gave them.

Isaiah 55:7

Let the wicked change their ways and banish the very thought of doing wrong. Let them turn to the Lord that he may have mercy on them. Yes, turn to our God, for he will forgive generously.

Jeremiah 3:22

“My wayward children,” says the Lord, “come back to me, and I will heal your wayward hearts.” “Yes, we’re coming,” the people reply, “for you are the Lord our God.

Jeremiah 30:12

This is what the Lord says: “Your injury is incurable— a terrible wound.

Jeremiah 30:17

I will give you back your health and heal your wounds,” says the Lord. “For you are called an outcast— ‘Jerusalem for whom no one cares.’”

Jeremiah 33:5

You expect to fight the Babylonians, but the men of this city are already as good as dead, for I have determined to destroy them in my terrible anger. I have abandoned them because of all their wickedness.

Jeremiah 33:6

“Nevertheless, the time will come when I will heal Jerusalem’s wounds and give it prosperity and true peace.

Jeremiah 50:4

“In those coming days,” says the Lord, “the people of Israel will return home together with the people of Judah. They will come weeping and seeking the Lord their God.

Jeremiah 50:5

They will ask the way to Jerusalem and will start back home again. They will bind themselves to the Lord with an eternal covenant that will never be forgotten.

Lamentations 3:11

He has dragged me off the path and torn me in pieces, leaving me helpless and devastated.

Hosea 11:10

For someday the people will follow me. I, the Lord, will roar like a lion. And when I roar, my people will return trembling from the west.

Hosea 12:6

So now, come back to your God. Act with love and justice, and always depend on him.

Hosea 14:1

Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God, for your sins have brought you down.

Hosea 14:4

The Lord says, “Then I will heal you of your faithlessness; my love will know no bounds, for my anger will be gone forever.

Hosea 3:5

But afterward the people will return and devote themselves to the Lord their God and to David’s descendant, their king. In the last days, they will tremble in awe of the Lord and of his goodness.

Leviticus 14:48

“But if the priest returns for his inspection and finds that the mildew has not reappeared in the house after the fresh plastering, he will pronounce it clean because the mildew is clearly gone.

Zephaniah 2:1

Gather together—yes, gather together, you shameless nation.

Deuteronomy 32:39

Look now; I myself am he! There is no other god but me! I am the one who kills and gives life; I am the one who wounds and heals; no one can be rescued from my powerful hand!

1 Samuel 2:6

The Lord gives both death and life; he brings some down to the grave but raises others up.

1 Samuel 7:3

Then Samuel said to all the people of Israel, “If you want to return to the Lord with all your hearts, get rid of your foreign gods and your images of Ashtoreth. Turn your hearts to the Lord and obey him alone; then he will rescue you from the Philistines.”