Matthew Poole and continuators on Hosea 6:11

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

Or also Iudah, i. e. As Israel is polluted, and must expect to be chastis'd; or O Iudah, thou art like polluted Israel in sin, and mightest be every way like in punishment.

But thy God hath appointed an harvest for thee, thou shalt not as Israel be utterly cut off, a seed of thee shall be sow'd, and thou shalt reap the harvest with joy.

When I shall return, rather so it looks to what is to come, or else for as much as I will turn thy Captivity,

the house of Iudah.

This verse is confessedly very dark to Interpreters who agree not whether Iudah be Vocative or Nominative, or who it is that setteth, whether Ephraim, Iudah, or God, or what Captivity is here meant; whether one past, or to come: the conciseness of our Prophet makes him very obscure.