Hosea 6:1 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Come, let’s return to the Lord. For he has torn us, and he will heal us; he has wounded us, and he will bind up our wounds. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition COME AND let us return to the Lord, for He has torn so that He may heal us; He has stricken so that He may bind us up. American Standard Version (1901) Come, and let us return unto Jehovah; for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. Common English Bible “Come, let’s return to the LORD; for it is he who has injured us and will heal us; he has struck us down, but he will bind us up. Catholic Public Domain Version In their tribulation, they will arise early to me. Come, let us return to the Lord. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version In their affliction they will rise early to me: Come, and let us return to the Lord: |
So the couriers went throughout Israel and Judah with letters from the hand of the king and his officials, and according to the king’s command, saying, ‘Israelites, return to the Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel so that he may return to those of you who remain, who have escaped the grasp of the kings of Assyria.
His anger tears at me, and he harasses me. He gnashes his teeth at me. My enemy pierces me with his eyes.
If you return to the Almighty, you will be renewed. If you banish injustice from your tent
But when God is silent, who can declare him guilty? When he hides his face, who can see him? Yet he watches over both individuals and nations,
For he wounds but he also bandages; he strikes, but his hands also heal.
a time to kill and a time to heal; a time to tear down and a time to build;
On that day people will look to their Maker and will turn their eyes to the Holy One of Israel.
and many peoples will come and say, ‘Come, let’s go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us about his ways so that we may walk in his paths.’ For instruction will go out of Zion and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
Then you will defile your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away like menstrual cloths, and call them filth.
The moonlight will be as bright as the sunlight, and the sunlight will be seven times brighter #– #like the light of seven days #– #on the day that the Lord bandages his people’s injuries and heals the wounds he inflicted.
Let the wicked one abandon his way and the sinful one his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, so that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will freely forgive.
Return, you faithless children. I will heal your unfaithfulness. ‘Here we are, coming to you, for you are the Lord our God.
For this is what the Lord says: Your injury is incurable; your wound most severe.
But I will bring you health and will heal you of your wounds – this is the Lord’s declaration – for they call you Outcast, Zion whom no one cares about.
The people coming to fight the Chaldeans will fill the houses with the corpses of their own men that I strike down in my wrath and fury. I have hidden my face from this city because of all their evil.
Yet I will certainly bring health and healing to it and will indeed heal them. I will let them experience the abundance of true peace.
In those days and at that time – this is the Lord’s declaration – the Israelites and Judeans will come together, weeping as they come, and will seek the Lord their God.
They will ask about Zion, turning their faces to this road. They will come and join themselves to the Lord in a permanent covenant that will never be forgotten.
They will follow the Lord; he will roar like a lion. When he roars, his children will come trembling from the west.
But you must return to your God. Maintain love and justice, and always put your hope in God.
Israel, return to the Lord your God, for you have stumbled in your iniquity.
I will heal their apostasy; I will freely love them, for my anger will have turned from him.
Afterwards, the people of Israel will return and seek the Lord their God and David their king. They will come with awe to the Lord and to his goodness in the last days.
‘But when the priest comes and examines it, if the contamination has not spread in the house after it was replastered, he is to pronounce the house clean because the contamination has disappeared.
See now that I alone am he; there is no God but me. I bring death and I give life; I wound and I heal. No one can rescue anyone from my power.
The Lord brings death and gives life; he sends some down to Sheol, and he raises others up.
Samuel told them, ‘If you are returning to the Lord with all your heart, get rid of the foreign gods and the Ashtoreths that are among you, set your hearts on the Lord, and worship only him. Then he will rescue you from the Philistines.’