Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
I go -- I turn back unto My place, Till that they are desolate, and have sought My face. In their distress they do seek Me speedily!'
New American Standard Bible
Until they
In their affliction they will earnestly
King James Version
I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.
Holman Bible
until they recognize their guilt and seek My face;
they will search for Me in their distress.
International Standard Version
"I will leave and go back to my place until they admit their offense and seek my face. When affliction comes to them, they will eagerly seek me."
A Conservative Version
I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly.
American Standard Version
I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me earnestly.
Amplified
I will go away and return to My place [on high]
Until they acknowledge their offense and bear their guilt and seek My face;
In their distress they will earnestly seek Me, saying,
Bible in Basic English
I will go back to my place till they are made waste; in their trouble they will go after me early and will make search for me.
Darby Translation
I will go away, I will return to my place, till they acknowledge their trespass, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.
Julia Smith Translation
I will go and turn back to my place, even till when they shall be guilty, and they sought my face: in straitness to them they will turn to me.
King James 2000
I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.
Lexham Expanded Bible
{I will return again} to my place until they acknowledge [their] guilt and seek my face; in their distress they will search me.
Modern King James verseion
I will go; I will return to My place until they confess their guilt and seek My face; in their affliction they will seek Me diligently.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
I will go, and return to my place, till they wax faint, and seek me.
NET Bible
Then I will return again to my lair until they have suffered their punishment. Then they will seek me; in their distress they will earnestly seek me.
New Heart English Bible
I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly."
The Emphasized Bible
I will depart, will return unto my place! till what time they acknowledge their guilt, and seek my face, - In their trouble, will they make for me diligent search.
Webster
I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.
World English Bible
I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly."
Themes
Afflictions made beneficial » In leading us to seek God in prayer
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Hosea 5:15
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Priests Are A Snare
14 For I am as a lion to Ephraim, And as a young lion to the house of Judah, I -- I tear and go, I bear away, and there is no deliverer. 15 I go -- I turn back unto My place, Till that they are desolate, and have sought My face. In their distress they do seek Me speedily!'
Cross References
Psalm 78:34
If He slew them, then they sought Him, And turned back, and sought God earnestly,
Isaiah 26:16
O Jehovah, in distress they missed Thee, They have poured out a whisper, Thy chastisement is on them.
Jeremiah 2:27
Saying to wood, 'My father art thou!' And to a stone, 'Thou hast brought me forth,' For they turned unto me the back and not the face, And in the time of their vexation, They say, 'Arise Thou, and save us.'
Leviticus 26:40-42
And -- they have confessed their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they have trespassed against Me, and also, that they have walked with Me, in opposition,
Psalm 50:15
And call Me in a day of adversity, I deliver thee, and thou honourest Me.
Jeremiah 3:13
Only, know thine iniquity, For against Jehovah thy God thou hast transgressed, And thou dost scatter thy ways to strangers, Under every green tree, And to My voice thou hast not hearkened, An affirmation of Jehovah.
Ezekiel 6:9
And remembered Me have your escaped among nations, Whither they have been taken captive, Because I have been broken with their heart that is going a-whoring, That hath turned aside from off Me, And with their eyes they are going a-whoring after their idols, And they have been loathsome in their own faces, For the evils that they have done -- all their abominations.
Exodus 25:21-22
'And thou hast put the mercy-seat on the ark above, and unto the ark thou dost put the testimony which I give unto thee;
Deuteronomy 4:29-31
And -- ye have sought from thence Jehovah thy God, and hast found, when thou seekest Him with all thy heart, and with all thy soul,
Deuteronomy 30:1-3
And it hath been, when all these things come upon thee, the blessing and the reviling, which I have set before thee, and thou hast brought them back unto thy heart, among all the nations whither Jehovah thy God hath driven thee away,
Judges 4:3
and the sons of Israel cry unto Jehovah, for he hath nine hundred chariots of iron, and he hath oppressed the sons of Israel mightily twenty years.
Judges 6:6-7
And Israel is very weak from the presence of Midian, and the sons of Israel cry unto Jehovah.
Judges 10:10-16
And the sons of Israel cry unto Jehovah, saying, 'We have sinned against Thee, even because we have forsaken our God, and serve the Baalim.'
1 Kings 8:10-13
And it cometh to pass, in the going out of the priests from the holy place, that the cloud hath filled the house of Jehovah,
1 Kings 8:47-48
and they have turned it back unto their heart in the land whither they have been taken captive, and have turned back, and made supplication unto Thee, in the land of their captors, saying, We have sinned and done perversely -- we have done wickedly;
2 Chronicles 6:36-37
When they sin against Thee -- for there is not a man who sinneth not -- and Thou hast been angry with them, and hast given them before an enemy, and taken them captive have their captors, unto a land far off or near;
2 Chronicles 7:14
and My people on whom My name is called be humbled, and pray, and seek My face, and turn back from their evil ways, then I -- I hear from the heavens, and forgive their sin, and heal their land.
2 Chronicles 33:12-13
And when he is in distress he hath appeased the face of Jehovah his God, and is humbled exceedingly before the God of his fathers,
Nehemiah 1:8-9
Remember, I pray Thee, the word that Thou didst command Moses Thy servant, saying, Ye -- ye trespass -- I scatter you among peoples;
Job 27:8-10
For what is the hope of the profane, When He doth cut off? When God doth cast off his soul?
Job 33:27
He looketh on men, and saith, 'I sinned, And uprightness I have perverted, And it hath not been profitable to me.
Psalm 83:16
Fill their faces with shame, And they seek Thy name, O Jehovah.
Psalm 132:14
This is My rest for ever and ever, Here do I sit, for I have desired it.
Proverbs 1:27-28
When your fear cometh as destruction, And your calamity as a hurricane doth come, When on you come adversity and distress.
Proverbs 8:17
I love those loving me, And those seeking me earnestly do find me.
Isaiah 26:9
With my soul I desired Thee in the night, Also, with my spirit within me I seek Thee earnestly, For when Thy judgments are on the earth, The inhabitants of the world have learned righteousness.
Isaiah 26:21
For, lo, Jehovah is coming out of His place, To charge the iniquity of the inhabitant of the earth upon him, And revealed hath the earth her blood, Nor doth she cover any more her slain!'
Isaiah 64:5-9
Thou hast met with the rejoicer And the doer of righteousness, In Thy ways they remember Thee, Lo, Thou hast been wroth when we sin, By them is continuance, and we are saved.
Jeremiah 29:12-14
'And ye have called Me, and have gone, and have prayed unto Me, and I have hearkened unto you,
Jeremiah 31:18-20
I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself, 'Thou hast chastised me, And I am chastised, as a heifer not taught, Turn me back, and I turn back, For thou art Jehovah my God.
Ezekiel 8:6
And He saith unto me, 'Son of man, art thou seeing what they are doing? the great abominations that the house of Israel are doing here, to keep far off from My sanctuary; and again thou dost turn, thou dost see great abominations.'
Ezekiel 10:4
and become high doth the honour of Jehovah above the cherub, over the threshold of the house, and the house is filled with the cloud, and the court hath been filled with the brightness of the honour of Jehovah.
Ezekiel 11:23
And the honour of Jehovah goeth up from off the midst of the city, and standeth on the mountain, that is on the east of the city.
Ezekiel 20:43
And ye have remembered there your ways, And all your doings, In which ye have been defiled, And ye have been loathsome in your own faces, For all your evils that ye have done.
Ezekiel 36:31
And ye have remembered your ways that are evil, And your doings that are not good, And have been loathsome in your own faces, For your iniquities, and for your abominations.
Daniel 9:4-12
And I pray to Jehovah my God, and confess, and say: 'I beseech Thee, O Lord God, the great and the fearful, keeping the covenant and the kindness to those loving Him, and to those keeping His commands;
Hosea 3:5
Afterwards turned back have the sons of Israel, and sought Jehovah their God, and David their king, and have hastened unto Jehovah, and unto His goodness, in the latter end of the days.
Hosea 5:6
With their flock and with their herd, They go to seek Jehovah, and do not find, He hath withdrawn from them.
Hosea 14:1-3
Turn back, O Israel, unto Jehovah thy God, For thou hast stumbled by thine iniquity.
Micah 1:3
For lo, Jehovah is going out from His place, And He hath come down, And hath trodden on high places of earth.
Zephaniah 2:1-3
Bend yourselves, yea, bend ye, O nation not desired,
Luke 13:25
from the time the master of the house may have risen up, and may have shut the door, and ye may begin without to stand, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, lord, open to us, and he answering shall say to you, I have not known you whence ye are,