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Introduction to Hosea 6:1: A Call to Return and Be Healed Hosea 6:1 begins a poetic and theological call for national repentance. Spoken by the prophet or the penitent community, the verse features a sequence of volitional and predictive verbs, framing divine discipline not as destruction but as a prelude to restoration. The tension between wounding and healing, striking and binding, mirrors the complex covenant relationship between YHWH and Yisra’el. This article explores the cohortative and imperfect verb forms and their syntactic interplay in the structure of hopeful repentance.… Learn Hebrew