Hosea 6:1

KJV1611 – Modern English

Come, and let us return to the LORD: for he has torn, and he will heal us; he has struck us, and he will bind us up.

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Other Translations

  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    Come, let us return to the LORD. For He has torn us, but He will heal us; He has struck us down, but He will bind us up.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    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.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    Come,{H3212} and let us return{H7725} unto Jehovah;{H3068} for he hath torn,{H2963} and he will heal{H7495} us; he hath smitten,{H5221} and he will bind us up.{H2280}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    Come{H3212}{(H8798)}, and let us return{H7725}{(H8799)} unto the LORD{H3068}: for he hath torn{H2963}{(H8804)}, and he will heal{H7495}{(H8799)} us; he hath smitten{H5221}{(H8686)}, and he will bind us up{H2280}{(H8799)}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    In their aduersite they shall seke me, and saye: come, let vs turne agayne to the LORDE: for he hath smytten vs, and he shal heale vs:

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Come, and let vs returne to the Lord: for he hath spoyled, and he will heale vs: he hath wounded vs, and he will binde vs vp.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Come, let vs turne agayne to the Lorde: for he hath smitten vs, and he shall heale vs, he hath wounded vs, and he shall binde vs vp agayne.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    ¶ 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.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    "Come, and let us return to Yahweh; For he has torn us to pieces, And he will heal us; He has injured us, And he will bind up our wounds.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    `Come, and we turn back unto Jehovah, For He hath torn, and He doth heal us, He doth smite, and He bindeth us up.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Come, and let us return unto Jehovah; for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Come, and let us return unto Jehovah; for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    Come, let us go back to the Lord; for he has given us wounds and he will make us well; he has given blows and he will give help.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    "Come, and let us return to Yahweh; for he has torn us to pieces, and he will heal us; he has injured us, and he will bind up our wounds.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    Superficial Repentance Breeds False Assurance of God’s Forgiveness“Come on! Let’s return to the LORD! He himself has torn us to pieces, but he will heal us! He has injured us, but he will bandage our wounds!

Referenced Verses

  • Deut 32:39 : 39 See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: nor is there any that can deliver out of my hand.
  • 1 Sam 2:6 : 6 The LORD kills and makes alive: he brings down to the grave and brings up.
  • Job 5:18 : 18 For he makes sore, and binds up: he wounds, and his hands make whole.
  • Job 34:29 : 29 When He gives quietness, who then can make trouble? And when He hides His face, who then can behold Him? Whether it be done against a nation or against a man only.
  • Isa 2:3 : 3 And many people shall go and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and He will teach us His ways, and we will walk in His paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
  • Hos 14:4 : 4 I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for my anger is turned away from him.
  • Hos 14:1 : 1 O Israel, return to the LORD your God; for you have fallen by your iniquity.
  • Lam 3:32-33 : 32 But though He causes grief, yet He will show compassion according to the multitude of His mercies. 33 For He does not willingly afflict or grieve the children of men.
  • Lam 3:40-41 : 40 Let us search and examine our ways and turn back to the LORD. 41 Let us lift up our heart along with our hands to God in the heavens.
  • Hos 5:12-15 : 12 Therefore I will be to Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness. 13 When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then Ephraim went to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb: yet he could not heal you, nor cure you of your wound. 14 For I will be to Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue him. 15 I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me earnestly.
  • Hos 13:7-9 : 7 Therefore I will be to them as a lion: as a leopard by the way I will observe them: 8 I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her cubs, and will tear the covering of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them. 9 O Israel, you have destroyed yourself; but in me is your help.
  • Ps 30:7 : 7 LORD, by your favor you have made my mountain stand strong: you hid your face, and I was troubled.
  • Isa 30:22 : 22 You shall defile also the covering of your graven images of silver, and the ornament of your molten images of gold: you shall cast them away as a menstrual cloth; you shall say to it, Be gone.
  • Isa 30:26 : 26 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD binds up the breach of his people, and heals the wound of their bruise.
  • Isa 55:7 : 7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the LORD, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
  • Jer 3:22 : 22 Return, you backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come to you; for you are the LORD our God.
  • Jer 30:12 : 12 For thus says the LORD, Your bruise is incurable, and your wound is severe.
  • Jer 30:17 : 17 For I will restore health to you, and I will heal you of your wounds, says the LORD; because they called you an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no one seeks after.
  • Jer 33:5 : 5 They come to fight with the Chaldeans, but only to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have slain in my anger and in my fury, because of whose wickedness I have hidden my face from this city.
  • Jer 50:4 : 4 In those days and at that time, says the LORD, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and weeping: they shall go and seek the LORD their God.
  • Zeph 2:1 : 1 Gather yourselves together, yes, gather together, O nation not desired;

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  • Jer 3:21-22
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    21 A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping and supplications of the children of Israel: for they have perverted their way, and they have forgotten the LORD their God.

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  • Joel 2:12-13
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    12 Therefore also now, says the LORD, turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.

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  • Hos 14:1-2
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    1 O Israel, return to the LORD your God; for you have fallen by your iniquity.

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  • Lam 3:40
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  • Isa 57:18
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    18 I have seen his ways and will heal him; I will lead him also and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.

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    19 Have You utterly rejected Judah? Has Your soul loathed Zion? Why have You struck us down, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, but behold, trouble!

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    18 For he makes sore, and binds up: he wounds, and his hands make whole.

  • Jer 50:4
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    4 In those days and at that time, says the LORD, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and weeping: they shall go and seek the LORD their God.

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    5 Why should you be stricken any more? you will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

    6 From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrefying sores: they have not been closed, nor bound up, nor soothed with ointment.

  • Jer 30:17
    72%

    17 For I will restore health to you, and I will heal you of your wounds, says the LORD; because they called you an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no one seeks after.

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    6 Turn to Him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted.

  • Isa 19:22
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    22 The LORD shall smite Egypt; He shall smite and heal it, and they shall return to the LORD. He shall be entreated by them and shall heal them.

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    6 In that day, says the LORD, will I assemble the lame, and I will gather the outcast, and her whom I have afflicted;

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    18 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bull not accustomed to the yoke: turn me, and I shall be turned; for you are the LORD my God.

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    1 O God, You have cast us off, You have scattered us, You have been displeased; O turn to us again.

  • Mic 1:9
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    9 For her wound is incurable; for it has come to Judah; it has reached the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.

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    1 If you will return, O Israel, says the LORD, return to me: and if you will put away your abominations out of my sight, then you shall not be moved.

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    12 For thus says the LORD, Your bruise is incurable, and your wound is severe.

  • 2 Chr 30:6
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    6 So the couriers went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, You children of Israel, return to the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and He will return to you who are escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria.

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    11 Also, O Judah, he has set a harvest for you, when I return the captivity of my people.

  • Hos 5:13
    71%

    13 When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then Ephraim went to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb: yet he could not heal you, nor cure you of your wound.

  • Jer 4:8
    71%

    8 For this gird yourselves with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.

  • Isa 30:26
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    26 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD binds up the breach of his people, and heals the wound of their bruise.

  • Jer 31:6
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    6 For there shall be a day when the watchmen on Mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise, and let us go up to Zion to the LORD our God.

  • Jer 3:14
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    14 Turn, O backsliding children, says the LORD; for I am married to you: and I will take you, one from a city, and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion:

  • Ps 80:18
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    18 So we will not turn back from you; revive us, and we will call upon your name.

  • Hos 14:4
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    4 I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for my anger is turned away from him.

  • Jer 15:6
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    6 You have forsaken me, says the LORD, you have gone backward: therefore I will stretch out my hand against you, and destroy you; I am weary with repenting.

  • Zech 10:6
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    6 And I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph. I will bring them back, for I have mercy on them, and they shall be as though I had not cast them off. For I am the LORD their God, and will hear them.

  • Jer 17:14
    70%

    14 Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for you are my praise.

  • 2 Chr 6:37
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    37 Yet if they come to themselves in the land where they are carried captive, and turn and pray to you in the land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have done wrong, and have dealt wickedly;

  • Isa 55:7
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    7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the LORD, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

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    2 O LORD my God, I cried out to you, and you healed me.

  • Zech 1:3
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    6 Therefore, turn to your God: keep mercy and justice, and wait on your God continually.

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