Hosea 6:3
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.
Study Note
Study Note
The community's resolve — 'let us know; let us press on to know the LORD; his going out is sure as the dawn; he will come to us as the showers, as the spring rains that water the earth' — uses the agrarian cycle of seasonal regularity to express confidence in the reliability of divine restoration. The prophetic context is ambiguous: Hosea 6:1-3 may be presented either as genuine repentance that God accepts or as a superficial confession that verse 4's divine response ('your love is like a morning cloud') undercuts as insufficient. The parallelism between dawn and spring rain presents divine coming through creation's most reliable natural rhythms, grounding eschatological hope in the patterns built into the created order. The verse has been used in both contexts of genuine liturgical hope and as a warning against verbal repentance that does not penetrate to transformed covenant loyalty.
Other Translations
And let us know, let us follow on to know Jehovah: his going forth is sure as the morning; and he will come unto us as the rain, as the latter rain that watereth the earth.
And we know--we pursue to know Jehovah, As the dawn prepared is His going forth, And He cometh in as a shower to us, As gathered rain--sprinkling earth.'
And let us have knowledge, let us go after the knowledge of the Lord; his going out is certain as the dawn, his decisions go out like the light; he will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain watering the earth.
Cross References
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