After two days he will revive us. On the third day he will raise us up, and we will live before him.
After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. (b) Though he correct us from time to time, yet his help will not be far off, if we return to him.
Hos 6:1-3 To this threat the prophet appends in the concluding strophe, both the command to return to the Lord, and the promise that the Lord will raise His smitten nation up again, and quicken them anew with His grace.
Commenting on Hosea 6:1-3
After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up,.... The Jews, in their present state, are as dead men, both in a civil and spiritual sense, and their conversion and restoration will be as life from the dead; they are like persons buried, and, when they are restored, they will be raised out of their graves, both of...