the Week of Proper 9 / Ordinary 14
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THE MESSAGE
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.
So return to your God. Patiently trust him, and show love and justice.
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.
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
Canaan had Sidon his firstborn, Heth, the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites, the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites, the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Later the Canaanites spread out, going from Sidon toward Gerar, as far south as Gaza, and then east all the way over to Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, Zeboiim, and on to Lasha.
Pharaoh called for Abram, "What's this that you've done to me? Why didn't you tell me that she's your wife? Why did you say, ‘She's my sister' so that I'd take her as my wife? Here's your wife back—take her and get out!"
And that's how it happened that Jacob arrived all in one piece in Shechem in the land of Canaan—all the way from Paddan Aram. He camped near the city. He bought the land where he pitched his tent from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem. He paid a hundred silver coins for it. Then he built an altar there and named it El-Elohe-Israel (Mighty Is the God of Israel).
They turned over to Jacob all the alien gods they'd been holding on to, along with their lucky-charm earrings. Jacob buried them under the oak tree in Shechem. Then they set out. A paralyzing fear descended on all the surrounding villages so that they were unable to pursue the sons of Jacob.
They set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hills of Naphtali, Shechem in the hills of Ephraim, and Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron) in the hills of Judah.
Joseph's bones, which the People of Israel had brought from Egypt, they buried in Shechem in the plot of ground that Jacob had purchased from the sons of Hamor (who was the father of Shechem). He paid a hundred silver coins for it. It belongs to the inheritance of the family of Joseph.
Jerub-Baal (Gideon) got up early the next morning, all his troops right there with him. They set up camp at Harod's Spring. The camp of Midian was in the plain, north of them near the Hill of Moreh.
Abimelech son of Jerub-Baal went to Shechem to his uncles and all his mother's relatives and said to them, "Ask all the leading men of Shechem, ‘What do you think is best, that seventy men rule you—all those sons of Jerub-Baal—or that one man rule? You'll remember that I am your own flesh and blood.'"
Rehoboam traveled to Shechem where all Israel had gathered to inaugurate him as king. Jeroboam had been in Egypt, where he had taken asylum from King Solomon; when he got the report of Solomon's death he had come back.
Stephen, Full of the Holy Spirit Then the Chief Priest said, "What do you have to say for yourself?" Stephen replied, "Friends, fathers, and brothers, the God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was still in Mesopotamia, before the move to Haran, and told him, ‘Leave your country and family and go to the land I'll show you.' "So he left the country of the Chaldees and moved to Haran. After the death of his father, he immigrated to this country where you now live, but God gave him nothing, not so much as a foothold. He did promise to give the country to him and his son later on, even though Abraham had no son at the time. God let him know that his offspring would move to an alien country where they would be enslaved and brutalized for four hundred years. ‘But,' God said, ‘I will step in and take care of those slaveholders and bring my people out so they can worship me in this place.' "Then he made a covenant with him and signed it in Abraham's flesh by circumcision. When Abraham had his son Isaac, within eight days he reproduced the sign of circumcision in him. Isaac became father of Jacob, and Jacob father of twelve ‘fathers,' each faithfully passing on the covenant sign. "But then those ‘fathers,' burning up with jealousy, sent Joseph off to Egypt as a slave. God was right there with him, though—he not only rescued him from all his troubles but brought him to the attention of Pharaoh, king of Egypt. He was so impressed with Joseph that he put him in charge of the whole country, including his own personal affairs. "Later a famine descended on that entire region, stretching from Egypt to Canaan, bringing terrific hardship. Our hungry fathers looked high and low for food, but the cupboard was bare. Jacob heard there was food in Egypt and sent our fathers to scout it out. Having confirmed the report, they went back to Egypt a second time to get food. On that visit, Joseph revealed his true identity to his brothers and introduced the Jacob family to Pharaoh. Then Joseph sent for his father, Jacob, and everyone else in the family, seventy-five in all. That's how the Jacob family got to Egypt. "Jacob died, and our fathers after him. They were taken to Shechem and buried in the tomb for which Abraham paid a good price to the sons of Hamor.
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.
