Hosea 6

Which worship songs are based on Hosea 6?

  1. There Is Nothing — Laura Story (2008) Hosea 6:3

    The repeated closing petition closely adapts Hosea’s call to persist in knowing the Lord. The combination of continued pursuit and knowledge of God makes this a specific verbal connection rather than a general devotional theme.

  2. You'll Come — Hillsong Worship (2008) Hosea 6:3

    The song closely adapts Hosea’s assurance that God's arrival is as certain as daybreak. Its accompanying rain imagery reinforces the connection to the same verse, which describes God coming like rain that replenishes the earth.

  3. Hope's Anthem — Bethel Music & William Matthews (2011) Hosea 6:3

    The second verse describes God's arrival as rain that waters dry ground. This closely adapts Hosea’s promise that the Lord will come to his people like rain watering the earth.

  4. As Surely as the Dawn — Emu Music (2010) Hosea 6:3

    The repeated comparison between God's dependable coming and the certainty of dawn closely adapts Hosea's assurance that the Lord's appearing is as certain as sunrise.

  5. Must I Wait — Phil Wickham (2007) Hosea 6:3

    The bridge closely paraphrases Hosea’s assurance that the Lord’s coming is as certain as the dawn. This distinctive comparison grounds the song’s longing for God’s presence in confidence that He will come.

  6. Hosea — Andrew Peterson (2008) Hosea 6:4

    The speaker compares her unreliable love to dew that quickly disappears, closely adapting Hosea’s description of Ephraim’s and Judah’s fleeting covenant loyalty.

Hosea 6 (King James Version)

1 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.

2 After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.

3 Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.

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 dew it goeth away.

5 Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth.

6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

7 But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.

8 Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.

9 And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.

10 I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

11 Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.