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Ezechielis 6:1
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Placuit Dario, et constituit super regnum satrapas centum viginti ut essent in toto regno suo.
[In tribulatione sua mane consurgent ad me:
Venite, et revertamur ad Dominum,
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
and let: Hosea 5:15, Hosea 14:1, Isaiah 2:3, Isaiah 55:7, Jeremiah 3:22, Jeremiah 50:4, Lamentations 3:40, Lamentations 3:41, Zephaniah 2:1
he hath torn: Hosea 5:12-14, Hosea 13:7-9, Deuteronomy 32:39, 1 Samuel 2:6, Job 5:18, Job 34:29, Psalms 30:7, Isaiah 30:22, Jeremiah 30:12, Jeremiah 33:5, Lamentations 3:32, Lamentations 3:33
Reciprocal: Genesis 32:29 - blessed Exodus 15:26 - for I am Leviticus 14:48 - shall come in Leviticus 26:40 - confess Deuteronomy 30:2 - return unto 1 Samuel 7:3 - return 2 Kings 3:13 - Nay 2 Kings 5:7 - Amos I God 2 Kings 19:3 - This day 2 Chronicles 6:26 - thou dost 2 Chronicles 15:4 - in their trouble Psalms 6:2 - heal Psalms 32:5 - I said Psalms 41:4 - heal Psalms 51:8 - bones Psalms 60:2 - heal Psalms 71:20 - quicken Psalms 77:2 - my Psalms 95:6 - O come Psalms 119:67 - but now Psalms 147:3 - healeth Proverbs 1:28 - they shall seek Ecclesiastes 3:3 - time to kill Isaiah 3:7 - healer Isaiah 10:21 - return Isaiah 12:1 - though Isaiah 17:7 - General Isaiah 27:8 - thou wilt Isaiah 30:18 - wait Isaiah 37:3 - General Isaiah 38:9 - he had Isaiah 61:1 - to bind Jeremiah 3:7 - Turn thou Jeremiah 3:12 - Return Jeremiah 5:24 - Let us now Jeremiah 8:4 - turn Jeremiah 22:23 - how Jeremiah 29:13 - ye shall Jeremiah 30:13 - hast Jeremiah 30:17 - For I Jeremiah 31:18 - surely Jeremiah 33:6 - I will bring Jeremiah 36:7 - It may Lamentations 3:10 - unto Lamentations 3:11 - pulled Hosea 2:7 - I will Hosea 7:10 - and they Hosea 11:5 - because Joel 2:12 - turn Amos 4:6 - yet Jonah 2:1 - prayed Zechariah 1:3 - Turn Malachi 4:2 - healing John 12:40 - heal James 4:8 - Draw nigh to God James 5:13 - any among
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Come, and let us return unto the Lord,.... The Septuagint and Arabic versions connect these words with the last clause of the preceding chapter, adding the word, "saying"; and so the Targum and Syriac version, "they shall say"; and very rightly as to the sense; for they are the words of those persons under the afflicting hand of God; and, being brought thereby to a sense of their sins, acknowledge them, and seek to the Lord for pardon, and encourage one another so to do; as Israel and Judah will in the latter day, when the veil shall be taken off their minds, the hardness of their heart removed, and they shall be converted, and turn to the Lord, and seek him together, weeping as they go; having both faith in Christ, and repentance towards God, by which they will return unto him; see 2 Corinthians 3:16; so all sinners sensible of their departure from God by sin, and of the evil and danger of it, repent of it, and loath it, confess and acknowledge it, depart from it, and forsake it; and return to the Lord, having some view and apprehension of him as a God, gracious and merciful in Christ; imploring the forgiveness of their sins, with some degree of faith and confidence in him; and not having only love to their own souls, and the welfare of them, but also to the souls of others, exhort and encourage them to join with them in the same acts of faith, repentance, and obedience. The Targum is,
"let us return to the worship of the Lord;''
from which they have sadly departed. The arguments or reasons follow,
for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up; the same hand that has torn will heal and that has smitten will bind up, and none else can; and therefore there is a necessity of returning to him for healing and a cure, Deuteronomy 32:39; and his tearing is in order to heal, and his smiting in order to bind up; and, as sure as he has done the one, he will do the other, and therefore there is great encouragement to apply to him; all which the Jews will be sensible of in the last day; and then the Lord, who is now tearing them in his wrath, and smiting them in his sore displeasure, both in their civil and church state, dispersing them among the nations, and has been so doing for many hundred years, will "bind up the breach of his people, and heal the stroke of their wound", Isaiah 30:26; and so the Lord deals with all his people, who are truly and really converted by him; he rends their heart, tears the caul of it; pricks and cuts them to the heart; smites them with the hammer of his word; wounds their consciences with a sense of sin; lets in the law into them, which works wrath, whereby they become broken and contrite; and all this in order to their turning to him that smites them, and be healed, and in love to their souls, though for the present grievous to bear: and then the great Physician heals them by his stripes and wounds; by the application of his blood; by means of his word, the Gospel of peace and pardon; by a look to him, and a touch of him by faith; by discoveries of his love, and particularly his pardoning grace and mercy, which as oil and wine he pours into the wounds made by sin, and binds them up; and which he heals universally, both with respect to persons and diseases, for which he is applied unto, and infallibly, thoroughly, and perfectly, and all freely.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Come and let us return unto the Lord - These words depend closely on the foregoing. They are words put into their mouth by God Himself, with which or with the like, they should exhort one another to return to God. Before, when God smote them, they had gone to Assyria; now they should turn to Him, owning, not only that He who “tore” has the power and the will to “heal” them, but that He tore, “in order to” heal them; He smote them, “in order to” bind them up. This closeness of connection is expressed in the last words; literally, “smite He and He will bind us up.” “He smiteth the putrefaction of the misdeed; He healeth the pain of the wound. Physicians do this; they cut; they smite; they heal; they arm themselves in order to strike; they carry steel, and come to cure.”
They are not content to return singly or to be saved alone. Each encourageth another to repentance, as before to evil. The dry bones, scattered on the face of the earth, reunite. There is a general movement among those “who sat in darkness and the shadow of death,” to return together to Him, who is the source of life.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
CHAPTER VI
The prophet earnestly exhorts to repentance, 1-3.
God is then introduced as very tenderly and pathetically
remonstrating against the backslidings of Ephraim and Judah,
4-11.
NOTES ON CHAP. VI
Verse Hosea 6:1. Come, and let us return unto the Lord — When God had purposed to abandon them, and they found that he had returned to his place - to his temple, where alone he could be successfully sought; they, feeling their weakness, and the fickleness, weariness, and unfaithfulness of their idols and allies, now resolve to "return to the Lord;" and, referring to what he said, Hosea 5:14: "I will tear and go away;" they say, he "hath torn, but he will heal us;" their allies had torn, but they gave them no healing. While, therefore, they acknowledge the justice of God in their punishment, they depend on his well-known mercy and compassion for restoration to life and health.