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Hosea 6:11

Also, O Judah, He hath set an harvest for thee, the harvest of the judgment of the Lord being prepared, when I returned the captivity of My people. The great misery of the entire nation of the Jews could be changed only by means of God's judgments of punishment, through which the godless would be destroyed and those who repented would be saved. To this day the only way for any person to be acceptable in the sight of God is by repentance and faith.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Hosea 6:11. _O JUDAH, HE HATH SET A HARVEST FOR THEE_] Thou also hast transgressed; thy _harvest_ will come; thou shalt be _reaped_ _down_ and sent into captivity. The _sickle_ is already thrust...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    ALSO, O JUDAH, HE HATH SET A HARVEST FOR THEE, WHEN I RETURNED - (rather, when I return) the captivity of My people. The “harvest” may be either for good or for bad. If the harvest is spoken of, as be...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 6:4-11 Divine Mourning over Ephraim and Judah _ 1. What shall I do to thee? (Hosea 6:4) _ 2. Their transgression (Hosea 6:7) Hosea 6:4. The Lord grieves and mourns over the condition of the...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    HOSEA 6:4 TO HOSEA 7:2. ISRAEL'S MORAL CONDITION HOPELESSLY CORRUPT. The shallow expressions of loyalty by the fickle people mean nothing, and cannot avert Yahweh's inevitable judgment. He looks for r...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    HE HATH SET. there is appointed. HARVEST: i.e.. reaping time of judgment. See Jeremiah 51:33.Joel 3:13. and compare Proverbs 22:8; Galatian

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Jehovah is still the speaker. From his heavenly -place" he points indignantly (as Hosea 6:7) to the abominations practised -there", i.e. in the whole land of Israel, for even Judah has not escaped the...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _RETURNING THE COVENANT OF GOD'S PEOPLE HOSEA 6:9-11:_ Both Israel and Judah had become very corrupt. Instead of helping the hurting they had become a “troop of robbers” waiting to harm some individua...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    ALSO, O JUDAH— _But for thee, O Judah, a harvest is prepared, then when I shall bring back the captivity of my people._ Houbigant. See ch. Hosea 2:15; Hosea 2:21. Harvest-work is cut out for Judah at...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    ISRAEL'S INGRATITUDEHER INCONSTANCY TEXT: Hosea 6:1-11 1 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. 2 After two days wil...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people. Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people. ALSO, O JUDAH...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    HE HATH SET] RV 'there is appointed.' WHEN I RETURNED] RV 'when I bring again.' This v. is often understood of the harvest of judgment (cp. Joel 3:13), but the phrase 'to turn, or bring again, a natio...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE SHALLOWNESS OF ISRAEL'S REPENTANCE Hosea now represents the people as counselling one another to repentance in presence of the impending danger; and goes on to point out the futility of a hurried...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    THE MAN WHO NEVER STOPPED LOVING HOSEA _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 6 THE PEOPLE ARE NOT TRUE TO GOD V1 ‘Come, let us return to the *Lord. He has torn us to pieces, but he will bring us health....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    AN HARVEST. — The harvest is not of joy, but of sorrow and affliction, befalling Judah, like Israel, for her sins: a contrast to the usual accompaniments of the season when the Feast of Tabernacles wa...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    גַּם ־יְהוּדָ֕ה שָׁ֥ת קָצִ֖יר לָ֑ךְ בְּ שׁוּב

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    THE THICK NIGHT OF ISRAEL Hosea 4:1; Hosea 5:1; Hosea 6:1; Hosea 7:1; Hosea 8:1

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    “LET US RETURN UNTO THE LORD” Hosea 6:1-11 How full Scripture is of tender invitations: _Come, and let us return!_ This opening verse is closely connected with Hosea 5:15. The hand that smote was th...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Here we have the prophet's appeal in consequence of the judgment threatened. It was first a message calling the people to return to Jehovah. It was based on the certainty of divine pity; and a promise...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Also, O Judah, he hath set an (i) harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people. (i) That is, imitates your idolatry, and has taken grafts of your trees....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Harvest. This implies punishment or felicity. The turn of Juda shall come, and he shall be chastised; but after the captivity, he shall enjoy plenty, chap. ii. 15., and Isaias ix. 3. (Calmet)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    REFLECTIONS READER! it is blessed amidst the general; yea, universal corruption of our poor fallen nature, to behold, even in a few instances here and there afforded, of the sovereignty of the Lord's...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    We find here the same melancholy account, as in the other parts of this prophecy; the Lord complaining of his people's apostacy; Gilead and the house of Israel; Ephraim and Judah; all alike transgress...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    The rest of the prophecy consists of the indignant appeals of the Holy Spirit to conscience because of the increasing evils of Israel not so much the judgment of God on a grand scale, and His grace at...

  • John Brown Commentaries Selected Books of the Bible

    VII. HOSEA 6:1-2 (NASB) "COME, LET US RETURN TO THE LORD. FOR HE HAS TORN [US,] BUT HE WILL HEAL US; HE HAS WOUNDED [US,] BUT HE WILL BANDAGE US. 2 "HE WILL REVIVE US AFTER TWO DAYS; HE WILL RAISE U...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    Then he adds, _Judeah also has set a plantation for thee _That I may finish the chapter, I will briefly notice this verse. Interpreters render it thus, “Also Judah, thou hast set for thyself an harves...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 6 AND 7. Chapter 6 calls forth a touching address from the prophet, in which he entreats the people to return to Jehovah. Faith has always this resource, beca...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    ALSO, O JUDAH, HE HATH SET AN HARVEST FOR THEE,.... That is, God hath set and appointed a time of wrath and vengeance for thee, which is sometimes signified by a harvest, Revelation 14:15; because tho...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people. Ver. 11. _Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee_] This is a very difficult text, and much vexed by...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _I have seen a horrible thing_ Such an apostacy from God as cannot be mentioned without horror. _There is the whoredom of Ephraim _ Or rather, _there_, namely, in the house of Israel, BY _the whoredom...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    4-11 Sometimes Israel and Judah seemed disposed to repent under their sufferings, but their goodness vanished like the empty morning cloud, and the early dew, and they were as vile as ever. Therefore...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    This verse is confessedly very dark to interpreters, who agree not whether Judah be vocative or nominative; or who it is that setteth, whether Ephraim, Judah, or God; or what captivity is here meant,...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Hosea 6:11 Judah H3063 harvest H7105 appointed H7896 (H8804) return H7725 (H8800) captives H7622 people H5971...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    Also, O Judah, there is a harvest appointed for you. In a quick change of tack Hosea turns on Judah. If many Judeans were attending the cult festival at which he was speaking these words, this might...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: The voice of the remnant of Israel in the last days. Jehovah's response. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: The consideration of God's judgments upon us because of sin should awaken us to return...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Hosea 6:2. _After two days will he revive us._ The Chaldaic paraphrase gives a double acceptation to this text, that the Messiah should raise the dead, and that he should also revive and heal the chur...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Also, O Judah, He hath set an harvest for thee._ NATURALNESS OF RETRIBUTION Divine punishment for sin is elsewhere spoken of as a harvest. I. Retribution is natural in its season. There are the “ap...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.— HOSEA 6:8. GILEAD] A city of refuge, the residence of priests, and the centre or metropolis of the hilly region beyond Jordan, yet polluted and the leader of ruin! HOSEA 6:9.] Even p...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION HOSEA 6:1 These three verses have, by the division into chapters, been violently and improperly torn from the preceding chapter, to which they naturally belong. Their connection with the f...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    And they will say, 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 (Hsa Hosea 6:1). This is the prayer that they will be offerin...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Jeremiah 51:33; Job 42:10; Joel 3:13; Micah 4:12; Psalms 126:1;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    He — But God hath appointed an harvest for thee; thou shalt not as Israel be cut off; a seed of thee shall be sowed, and thou shalt reap the harvest with joy....

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