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King James Version (KJV)
“In our prayers we talk to God, in our Bible study God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking.”
— D.L. Moody
Scripture focus
1. 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. 2. After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. 3. Then shall we know, [if] we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter [and] former rain unto the earth.
Hosea 6:1-3 — KJV
Come. Verses 1-3 are more closely related in thought to ch. 5:15 than to the remaining verses of ch. 6.
He hath torn. God’s love for us makes His punishment of us a “strange act” (Isa. 28:21), and one that He is loath to employ. The essential purpose of His present discipline is to bring about reformation of life (see Ps 119:75; Lam. 3:31-33; Heb. 12:5—11).
He will heal. The Lord, not the Assyrian “Jareb” (see on ch. 5:13), nor any other human being (see Deut. 32:39), is the true Physician.
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