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6Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually.

Hosea 12:6

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

  • Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.

  • O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.

  • The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. …

  • 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. …

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-6)

In these verses, I. Ephraim is convicted of folly, in staying himself upon Egypt and Assyria, when he was in straits (Hos. 12:1): Ephraim feeds on wind , that is, feeds himself with vain hopes of assistance from man, when he is at variance with God; and, when he meets with disappointments, he still pursues the same game, and greedily pants and follows after the east wind , which he cannot catch ho…

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