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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Hosea 6:4 - 6:4
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what shall I do unto thee - to bring thee back to piety. What more could be done that I have not done, both in mercies and chastenings (Isa 5:4)? At this verse a new discourse begins, resuming the threats (Hos 5:14). See on opening remarks on this chapter.
goodness - godliness.
morning cloud - soon dispersed by the sun (Hos 13:3). There is a tacit contrast here to the promise of God’s grace to Israel hereafter, in Hos 6:3. His going forth is “as the morning,” shining more and more unto the perfect day; your goodness is “as a morning cloud,” soon vanishing. His coming to His people is “as the (fertilizing) latter and former rains”; your coming to Him “as the early dew goeth away.”