Book of Hosea
Compiled by WD Kemner December 2025
Chapter 6
Time for Repentance or Judgment
Cross Reference: Mourning for sins committed
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.
Time that the mourning of Zechariah 12:11-14 will take place. After 2 full days of mourning, on 3rd day God will open to the house of David and inhabitants of Jerusalem a fountain for sin.
All Israel will be saved. Romans 11:25-26, Isaiah 66:7-8
“latter and former rains”
Former rain = October at seed time
Latter rain = Spring March/April for seed to grow and ripen
One was at beginning and the other at Harvest. God would come and make a Harvest of the Nation.
Hosea 6:4-11
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.
Retorical question? What is to be done with Israel and Judah? Their commitment to God is as short lived as the Morning dew.
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.
It is time for judgment. They had been given God’s own words through Prophets and not heeded.