Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
THE ISRAELITES' EXHORTATION TO ONE ANOTHER TO SEEK THE LORD. (Hosea 6:1-11)
At Hosea 6:4 a new discourse, complaining of them, begins; for Hosea 6:1-3 evidently belong to Hosea 5:15, and form the happy termination of Israel's punishment: primarily, the return from Babylon; ultimately, the return from their present long dispersion. Hosea 6:8 perhaps refers to the murder of Pekahiah; the discourse cannot be later than Pekah's reign, for it was under it that Gilead was carried into captivity (2 Kings 15:29).
let us return--in order that God who has "returned to His place" may return to us (Hosea 5:15).
torn, and . . . heal-- (Deuteronomy 32:39; Jeremiah 30:17). They ascribe their punishment not to fortune, or man, but to God, and acknowledge that none (not the Assyrian, as they once vainly thought, Hosea 5:13) but God can heal their wound. They are at the same time persuaded of the mercy of God, which persuasion is the starting-point of true repentance, and without which men would not seek, but hate and flee from God. Though our wound be severe, it is not past hope of recovery; there is room for grace, and a hope of pardon. He hath smitten us, but not so badly that He cannot heal us (Psalms 130:4).
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Job 5:18
Ecclesiastes 3:3
Song of Solomon 3:4
Isaiah 31:6
Lamentations 3:11
Ezekiel 20:43
Hosea 6:1
Hosea 6:1
Hosea 6:8
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