Hosea 12:6

Modern

But you must return to your God; maintain love and justice, and always wait on your God.

Traditional

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

Literal

And you must return to your God; Keep love and justice, and wait for your God continually!

Latin

Et tu ad Deum tuum converteris; misericordiam et judicium custodi, et spera in Deo tuo semper.

Hebrew

English

But you must return to your God; maintain love and justice, and always wait on your God.

The Lord urged Israel to stop living like Jacob. Instead, they should return to God and act with love and justice.

Israel has engaged in deception and dishonesty since Jacob's time.

Theme notes and profiles

Micah 6:8
He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
Micah 7:7
But as for me, I will look to the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.
Lamentations 3:25–26
The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him.
Hosea 14:1
Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled by your iniquity.
Acts 2:38
Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
James 2:13
For judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
Hosea 6:1–3
Come, let us return to the LORD. For He has torn us to pieces, but He will heal us; He has wounded us, but He will bind up our wounds.
Zechariah 7:9
“This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Administer true justice. Show loving devotion and compassion to one another.
Isaiah 55:6–7
Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.
Isaiah 30:18
Therefore the LORD longs to be gracious to you; therefore He rises to show you compassion, for the LORD is a just God. Blessed are all who wait for Him.
Zechariah 1:3
So tell the people that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Return to Me, declares the LORD of Hosts, and I will return to you, says the LORD of Hosts.’
Genesis 49:18
I await Your salvation, O LORD.