The chapter opens with a call to return — “Come, let us return to the LORD... after two days he will revive us; on the third day he will raise us up” — but the people’s love is exposed as fleeting, “like a morning cloud.” God declares His true desire: “I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings,” yet Israel has broken the covenant.
Hosea study chapter
Hosea 6
c. 740 BCA shallow call to return, met by God’s desire for steadfast love and not sacrifice.
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