NOTES for Hos 6:1-11
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. |
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. |
6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. |
7 But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me. |
8 Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood. |
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. |
10 I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled. |
11 Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people. |
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God reveals His heart: "I desire mercy, not sacrifice." This may be the summit of the revelation given through the prophet Hosea. Sacrifices, good works, keeping the commandments - all of this has meaning only if behind it stands our love not for ourselves, but for another: for God, for another person... Not a "striving for great achievements," not "doing one's duty," but love that "does not seek its own" (1 Cor. 13:5) and that leaves no room for lawlessness.
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