Also for you, O Judah, a harvest is appointed, when I restore My people from captivity.
Parallel translations
- WEB “Also, Judah, there is a harvest appointed for you, when I restore the fortunes of my people.
- KJV Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.
- NKJV Also, O Judah, a harvest is appointed for you, When I return the captives of My people.
- NASB Also, Judah, there is a harvest appointed for you, When I restore the fortunes of My people.
- NLT “O Judah, a harvest of punishment is also waiting for you, though I wanted to restore the fortunes of my people.
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Quick answer
A harvest of judgment is also appointed for Judah, even as God speaks of restoring His people's fortunes.
Overview
Judah is not exempt; a "harvest" of reckoning awaits her too, though the verse also hints at God's intention to restore the captive fortunes of His people. Judgment and the promise of restoration stand together, as is characteristic of Hosea. This blend of warning and hope anticipates the gospel pattern in which judgment falls but restoration follows for those who are God's.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- Joel 3:13Swing the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, trample the grapes, for the winepress is full; the wine vats overflow because their wickedness is great.
- Job 42:10After Job had prayed for his friends, the LORD restored his prosperity and doubled his former possessions.
- Jer 51:33For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “The Daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time it is trampled. In just a little while her harvest time will come.”
- Rev 14:15Then another angel came out of the temple, crying out in a loud voice to the One seated on the cloud, “Swing Your sickle and reap, because the time has come to harvest; for the crop of the earth is ripe.”
- Mic 4:12But they do not know the thoughts of the LORD or understand His plan, for He has gathered them like sheaves to the threshing floor.
- Ps 126:1A song of ascents. When the LORD restored the captives of Zion, we were like dreamers.
- Zeph 2:7The coast will belong to the remnant of the house of Judah; there they will find pasture. They will lie down in the evening among the houses of Ashkelon, for the LORD their God will attend to them and restore their captives.
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God's relentless love for an unfaithful bride dramatizes the gospel: 'Out of Egypt I called my son' is fulfilled in Jesus, who redeems an adulterous people at his own cost.
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