Hosea 6
Lutheran reading notes
In Hosea chapter 6, the prophetic message develops the theme of Israel’s unfaithfulness and God’s enduring covenant love. Lutheran interpretation often highlights the contrast between divine judgment against sin and the promise of grace that God provides for those who trust in Him.
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.
Hosea 6:1 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
2
After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
Hosea 6:2 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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 6:3 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
4
O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness {is} as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away. {goodness: or, mercy, or, kindness}
Hosea 6:4 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
5
Therefore have I hewed {them} by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments {are as} the light {that} goeth forth. {and...: or, that thy judgments might be, etc}
Hosea 6:5 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
6
For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
Hosea 6:6 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
7
But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me. {men: or, Adam}
Hosea 6:7 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
8
Gilead {is} a city of them that work iniquity, {and is} polluted with blood. {polluted: or, cunning for}
Hosea 6:8 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
9
And as troops of robbers wait for a man, {so} the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness. {by...: Heb. with one shoulder, or, to Shechem} {lewdness: or, enormity}
10
I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there {is} the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.
Hosea 6:10 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
11
Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.
Hosea 6:11 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.