Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes
Hosea 6:4
what... ? Figure of speech Erotesis and Aporia. App-6.
for. Some codices, with Syriac and Vulgate, read "and".
goodness. piety.
what... ? Figure of speech Erotesis and Aporia. App-6.
for. Some codices, with Syriac and Vulgate, read "and".
goodness. piety.
Verse Hosea 6:4. _O EPHRAIM, WHAT SHALL I DO UNTO THEE?_] This is the answer of the Lord to the above pious resolutions; sincere while they lasted, but frequently forgotten, because the people were f...
O EPHRAIM, WHAT SHALL I DO UNTO THEE? - It is common with the prophets, first to set forth the fullness of the riches of God’s mercies in Christ, and then to turn to their own generation, and upbraid...
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...
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...
The answer of Jehovah, who cannot be satisfied with such a superficial repentance and such hasty resolutions of -knowing" Him. _what shall I do unto thee?_ -What other means can possibly be employed...
_RIGHTEOUSNESS MUST BE CONTINUAL HOSEA 6:3-4:_ God caused both Israel (Ephraim) and Judah to think of their sad spiritual condition by asking “O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall...
DISCOURSE: 1155 MAN’S INSTABILITY AND GOD’S FORBEARANCE Hosea 6:4. _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...
O EPHRAIM! WHAT SHALL I DO, &C.— This is the answer of the Lord to the prayer or promises of Judah and Israel. _YOUR GOODNESS_— חסד _chesed._ The various senses of this word are well enumerated by Vit...
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...
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. O EPHRAIM, WHAT SHALL I DO UNTO THEE? - to bri...
6:4 goodness (n-17) _ Chesed_ , see ch. 2.19....
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...
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....
Here ends the supposed language of the penitents. If it were genuine, and accompanied by a deep sense of sin, it would not be in vain. But the prophet utters the heartrending response and expostulatio...
מָ֤ה אֶֽעֱשֶׂה ־לְּךָ֙ אֶפְרַ֔יִם מָ֥ה אֶעֱשֶׂה...
THE THICK NIGHT OF ISRAEL Hosea 4:1; Hosea 5:1; Hosea 6:1; Hosea 7:1; Hosea 8:1
“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...
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...
O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for (c) your goodness [is] as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away. (c) You seem to have a certain holiness an...
_Mercy. Hebrew chesed, (Haydock) "piety," &c., (Grotius) whence the word Assideans is derived, 1 Machabees ii. 42. The captives flattered themselves, that as soon as they began to entertain sentiments...
If the Reader recollects what I humbly observed in my Commentary on Hosea 4:17 and compares it with this verse, perhaps he may be led to think as I do. Certain it is, we shall think alike, if God the...
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...
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...
Some so expound this passage as that God would not once irrigate his people, but would continue this favor; as though he said, “He is deceived, who thinks that the redemption, which I bid you to hope...
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...
O EPHRAIM, WHAT SHALL I DO UNTO THEE? O JUDAH, WHAT SHALL I DO UNTO THEE?.... Or, "for thee" x? The Lord having observed the effect and consequence of his going and returning to his place, of his leav...
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. Ver. 4. _O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee,...
_O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee?_ Or rather, _what shall I do for thee?_ Here the Lord takes up the discourse again in his own person, and gives an answer to the prayer, or promises, of Judah an...
O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? Cf Isaiah 5:4. What more was to be done in a case of this kind?. FOR YOUR GOODNESS IS AS A MORNING CLOUD, their godliness and...
AN EARNEST INVITATION AND A FURTHER ADMONITION. Having stated his threat in a most uncompromising form, the prophet adds a powerful appeal to the people of his nation to heed the warning of the Lord...
GOODNESS: Or, mercy, or, kindness...
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...
The Lord now enters a debate with both Israel (here called EPHRAIM) and the two tribes, with all that were his, people anciently; much after the manner of men, who having to do with froward and ungove...
Hosea 6:4 Ephraim H669 do H6213 (H8799) Judah H3063 do H6213 (H8799) faithfulness H2617 morning H1242 cloud...
YHWH MAKES CLEAR HIS CURRENT VIEW OF ISRAEL AND JUDAH BECAUSE OF THEIR SPIRITUAL BANKRUPTCY (HOSEA 6:4). Hosea, in words of YHWH, now contrasts his future glowing picture of Israel's restoration with...
‘O Ephraim, what shall I do to you? O Judah, what shall I do to you? For your covenant love is as a morning cloud, And as the dew which goes early away.' We can see in this the cry of a father's he...
Hosea 6:4 We sometimes hear it taken for granted that there are men who live and die without any serious thoughts. It may be so. But of the far larger class it may assuredly be said that they have, fr...
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...
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...
_Your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away._ INSTANCES OF INCONSTANCY IN GOOD MEN Men’s convictions die away, their resolutions prove abortive; they run well, but don’t...
CRITICAL NOTES.— HOSEA 6:4.] Begins a bitter complaint. WHAT] Both in mercy and judgment (Isaiah 5:4). God was constant and kind, Isa. inconstant. GOODNESS] Godliness, Heb. mercy, kindness, all virtue...
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...
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...
2 Peter 2:20; Hosea 11:8; Hosea 13:3; Isaiah 5:3; Isaiah 5:4;...
What shall I do — What shall I do more to save you from ruin, and save my own honour, truth, and justice?...