KJV King James 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.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Hosea 6:1
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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Come, let us return to the LORD. For He has torn us to pieces, but He will heal us; He has wounded us, but He will bind up our wounds.
WEB World English Bible
“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.
ASV American Standard Version
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.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
‘Come, and we turn back unto Jehovah, For He hath torn, and He doth heal us, He doth smite, and He bindeth us up.
Surrounding context — Hosea 6
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.
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.
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Original-language word links
These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
לְכוּ֙H1980 · ha.lakhto go: wentוְנָשׁ֣וּבָהH7725 · shuvto return: returnאֶל־H413 · elto(wards)יְהוָ֔הH3068 · ye.ho.vahLORDכִּ֛יH3588 · kiforה֥וּאH1931 · huhe/she/itטָרָ֖ףH2963 · ta.raphto tearוְיִרְפָּאֵ֑נוּH7495 · ra.pahto healיַ֖ךְH5221 · na.khahto smiteוְיַחְבְּשֵֽׁנוּ׃H2280 · cha.vashto saddle/tie
Cross-references
Job 5:18For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.Deuteronomy 32:39See 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: neither [is there any] that can deliver out of my hand.1 Samuel 2:6The LORD killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.Lamentations 3:40-41Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.Hosea 14:4I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.Isaiah 2:3And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of 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.Job 34:29When he giveth quietness, who then can make trouble? and when he hideth [his] face, who then can behold him? whether [it be done] against a nation, or against a man only:Isaiah 55:7Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.Jeremiah 30:17For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the LORD; because they called thee an Outcast, [saying], This [is] Zion, whom no man seeketh after.Hosea 14:1O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.Jeremiah 50:4In those days, and in that time, saith 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.Lamentations 3:32-33But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.Hosea 13:7-9Therefore I will be unto them as a lion: as a leopard by the way will I observe [them]:Jeremiah 3:22Return, ye backsliding children, [and] I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou [art] the LORD our God.Isaiah 30:26Moreover 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 bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.Psalm 30:7LORD, by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to stand strong: thou didst hide thy face, [and] I was troubled.Hosea 5:12-15Therefore [will] I [be] unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.Jeremiah 33:5They come to fight with the Chaldeans, but [it is] to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have slain in mine anger and in my fury, and for all whose wickedness I have hid my face from this city.
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