the Fourth Week of Advent
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Hosea 12:6
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But you must return to your God.Maintain love and justice,and always put your hope in God.
Therefore turn to your God. Keep kindness and justice, And wait for your God continually.
Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment and wait on thy God continually.
"So you, by the help of your God, return, hold fast to love and justice, and wait continually for your God."
So as for you, return to your God, Maintain kindness and justice, And wait for your God continually.
You must return to your God; love him, do what is just, and always trust in him as your God.
Therefore, return [in repentance] to your God, Observe and highly regard kindness and justice, And wait [expectantly] for your God continually.
Therefore turne thou to thy God: keepe mercy and iudgement, and hope still in thy God.
Therefore, return to your God, Observe kindness and justice, And wait for your God continually.
Therefore, return to your God,Keep lovingkindness and justice,And hope in your God continually.
But you must return to your God, maintaining love and justice, and always waiting on your God.
Adonai Elohei -Tzva'ot; Adonai is his name!
And thou, return unto thy God: keep loving-kindness and judgment, and wait on thy God continually.
So come back to your God. Be loyal to him. Do the right thing, and always trust in your God!
Therefore return to your God; keep mercy and justice, and wait for your God continually.
So now, descendants of Jacob, trust in your God and return to him. Be loyal and just, and wait patiently for your God to act.
But you, you must return to your God; keep love and justice, and wait continually for your God.
For this reason, you return to your God; keep kindness and judgment, and call on your God continually.
Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep kindness and justice, and wait for thy God continually.
So then, come back to your God; keep mercy and right, and be waiting at all times on your God.
But the LORD, the God of hosts, the LORD is His name.
Therefore turne thou to thy God: keepe mercie and iudgement, and wait on thy God continually.
Therfore turne to thy God, kepe mercie and iudgement, and hope styll in thy God.
Thou therefore shalt return to thy God: keep thou mercy and judgment, and draw nigh to thy God continually.
Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually.
Therefore turn to your God. Keep kindness and justice, And wait for your God continually.
And thou schalt turne to thi God. Kepe thou merci and doom, and hope thou euere in thi God.
Therefore you shall turn to your God: keep kindness and justice, and wait for your God continually.
Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually.
But you must return to your God, by maintaining love and justice, and by waiting for your God to return to you.
So you, by the help of your God, return; Observe mercy and justice, And wait on your God continually.
So now, come back to your God. Act with love and justice, and always depend on him.
So return to your God. Show kindness and do what is fair, and wait for your God all the time.
But as for you, return to your God, hold fast to love and justice, and wait continually for your God.
Thou, therefore, by thy God, shalt return, - lovingkindness and justice, do thou keep, so wait thou for thy God, continually.
Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and hope in thy God always.
"So you, by the help of your God, return, hold fast to love and justice, and wait continually for your God."
And thou, through thy God, dost turn, Kindness and judgment keep thou, And wait on thy God continually.
Then turne to thy God, kepe mercy and equyte, and hope still in thy God.
What are you waiting for? Return to your God! Commit yourself in love, in justice! Wait for your God, and don't give up on him—ever!
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
turn: Hosea 14:1, Proverbs 1:23, Isaiah 31:6, Isaiah 55:6, Isaiah 55:7, Jeremiah 3:14-22, Lamentations 3:39-41, Joel 2:13, Zechariah 1:3, Acts 2:38, Acts 26:20
keep: Hosea 4:1, Proverbs 21:3, Isaiah 1:16, Isaiah 58:6, Jeremiah 22:15, Amos 5:24, Micah 6:8, Zechariah 7:9, Zechariah 8:16, James 1:27, James 2:13
wait: Genesis 49:18, Psalms 27:14, Psalms 37:7, Psalms 123:2, Psalms 130:5-7, Isaiah 8:17, Isaiah 30:18, Isaiah 40:31, Lamentations 3:25, Lamentations 3:26, Habakkuk 2:3, Zephaniah 3:8
Reciprocal: Lamentations 3:40 - turn Ezekiel 18:30 - Repent Daniel 6:20 - servest Joel 2:12 - turn Acts 9:35 - turned Galatians 5:5 - wait
Cross-References
Finally, the king sent for Abram and said to him, "What have you done to me? Why didn't you tell me Sarai was your wife?
Why did you make me believe she was your sister? Now I've married her. Take her and go! She's your wife."
After leaving northern Syria, Jacob arrived safely at Shechem in Canaan and set up camp outside the city.
She was seen by Hamor's son Shechem, the leader of the Hivites, and he grabbed her and raped her.
So everyone gave Jacob their idols and their earrings, and he buried them under the oak tree near Shechem.
You know that these two mountains are west of the Jordan River in land now controlled by the Canaanites living in the Jordan River valley. The mountains are west of the road near the sacred trees of Moreh on the other side of Gilgal.
The Israelites decided that the following three towns west of the Jordan River would be Safe Towns: Kedesh in Galilee in Naphtali's hill country, Shechem in Ephraim's hill country, and Kiriath-Arba in Judah's hill country. Kiriath-Arba is now called Hebron.
When the people of Israel left Egypt, they brought the bones of Joseph along with them. They took the bones to the town of Shechem and buried them in the field that Jacob had bought for one hundred pieces of silver from Hamor, the founder of Shechem. The town and the field both became part of the land belonging to the descendants of Joseph.
Early the next morning, Gideon and his army got up and moved their camp to Fear Spring. The Midianite camp was to the north, in the valley at the foot of Moreh Hill.
Abimelech the son of Gideon went to Shechem. While there, he met with his mother's relatives
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Therefore turn thou to thy God,.... Judah, with whom the Lord had a controversy, is here addressed and exhorted to return to the Lord, from whom they had backslidden; and this is urged, from the consideration of their being the descendants of so great a man as Jacob; whose example they should follow, and make supplication to the Lord as he did; and from this instance of their progenitor might encourage themselves, that God, who was his God, and their God, would be gracious and merciful to them, and that they should prevail with him likewise, and obtain the blessing, and especially since he is the everlasting and unchangeable Jehovah. Turning to the Lord, as it supposes a going astray from him, so it signifies a turning from idols, and all vain confidences; and is done by renewed acts of faith and trust in the Lord, and repentance towards him; and cannot be performed aright without grace and strength from him, of which Ephraim was sensible, Jeremiah 31:18; as well as the encouragement to it is from a view of God as a covenant God, and as gracious and merciful, So Aben Ezra interprets it of divine help, of turning by thy God, that is, by the help and assistance of thy God; and, indeed, conversion to God, whether at first, or after, is through his powerful and efficacious grace. Kimchi explains it, "thou shalt rest in thy God" w; when want follows is performed, comparing it with Isaiah 30:15. The Targum is,
"and thou shall be strong in the worship of thy God;''
keep mercy and judgment; or, "observe" x them to do them; to show mercy to persons in misery, to the poor and indigent, which is what the Lord desires and delights in, more than in ceremonial sacrifices; and is a principal part of the moral law, as "judgment" is another; the exercise of justice, both public and private; passing a righteous sentence in courts of judicature, and doing that which is right between man and man; owing no man anything, but giving to all their due; doing no injury to any man's person, property, or character; which are fruits meet for true repentance; and when they spring from faith and love, and are done with a view to the glory of God, and good of men, are acceptable to the Lord; these are the weightier matters of the law,
Matthew 23:23;
and wait on thy God continually; both in private prayer, and for an answer to it, and in public worship and ordinances, in hope of meeting with him, and enjoying his presence; for this takes in the whole of religious worship, private and public, and all religious exercises, as invocation of God, trust in him, and expectation of seed things from him; and may have a respect to the Messiah, and salvation by him, and a waiting for him and that; as Jacob did, and his posterity should, and many of them were in this posture, before and at his coming; see
Genesis 49:18; Agreeable to this the Targum is,
"and wait for the redemption or salvation of thy God continually.''
w באלוהיך תשוב "in Deo tuo conquiesce", Drusius. x שמר "observa", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Therefore turn thou to thy God - (Literally, “And thou, thou shalt turn” so as to lean “on thy God.”) “And thou” unlike, he would say, as thou art to thy great forefather, now at least, “turn to thy God;” hope in Him, as Jacob hoped; and thou too shalt be accepted. God was the Same. They then had only to turn to Him in truth, and they too would find Him, such as Jacob their father had found Him, and then “trust in him continually. mercy and judgment” include all our duty to our neighbor, love and justice. The prophet. selects the duties of the second table, as Micah also places them first, “What doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly and love mercy, and walk humbly with thy God?” Micah 6:8, and our Lord chooses those same commandments, in answer to the rich young man, who asked him, “What shall I do, in order to enter into life?” Matthew 19:17. For people cannot deceive themselves so easily about their duties to their neighbor, as about their duty to God. It was in love to his neighbor that the rich young man failed.
Thou shalt turn - that is, it is commonly said, thou oughtest to turn; as our’s has it, “turn.” But it may also include the promise that, at one time, “Israel shall turn to the Lord,” as Paul says, “so shall all Israel be saved.”
And wait on thy God continually - If they did so, they should not wait in vain. : “This word, “continually,” hath no small weight in it, shewing with what circumstances or properties their waiting or hope on God ought to be attended; that it ought to be on Him alone, on Him always, without doubting, fainting, failing, intermission or ceasing, in all occasions and conditions which may befall them, without exception of time, even in their adversity.” “Turn to ‘thy’ God,” he saith, “wait on ‘thy’ God,” as the great ground of repentance and of trust. “God had avouched them for His peculiar people” Deuteronomy 26:17-18, and they had “avouched Him for” their only “God.” He then was still their God, ready to receive them, if they would return to Him.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Hosea 12:6. Therefore turn thou to thy God — Because he is the same, and cannot change. Seek him as faithfully and as fervently as Jacob did, and you will find him the same merciful and compassionate Being.
