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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Hosea 6:1 - 6:1
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Hos 6:1-11. The Israelites’ exhortation to one another to seek the Lord.
At Hos 6:4 a new discourse, complaining of them, begins; for Hos 6:1-3 evidently belong to Hos 5:15, and form the happy termination of Israel’s punishment: primarily, the return from Babylon; ultimately, the return from their present long dispersion. Hos 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 (2Ki 15:29).
let us return - in order that God who has “returned to His place” may return to us (Hos 5:15).
torn, and ... heal - (Deu 32:39; Jer 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, Hos 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 (Psa 130:4).