Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
For thus said Jehovah to the house of Israel: Seek ye Me, and live,
New American Standard Bible
For thus says the Lord to the house of Israel,
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King James Version
For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:
Holman Bible
For the Lord says to the house of Israel:
International Standard Version
"For this is what the LORD says to the house of Israel: "Seek me and live,
A Conservative Version
For thus says LORD to the house of Israel: Seek ye me, and ye shall live.
American Standard Version
For thus saith Jehovah unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live;
Amplified
For thus says the Lord to the house of Israel,
Bible in Basic English
For these are the words of the Lord to the children of Israel: Let your hearts be turned to me, so that you may have life:
Darby Translation
For thus saith Jehovah unto the house of Israel: Seek ye me, and ye shall live.
Julia Smith Translation
For thus said Jehovah to the house of Israel: Seek ye me and live:
King James 2000
For thus says the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek me, and you shall live:
Lexham Expanded Bible
For thus says Yahweh to the house of Israel, "Seek me so that you may live."
Modern King James verseion
For so says Jehovah to the house of Israel: Seek Me, and you shall live.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
"Nevertheless, thus sayeth the LORD unto the house of Israel, 'Seek after me, and ye shall live;
NET Bible
The Lord says this to the family of Israel: "Seek me so you can live!
New Heart English Bible
For thus says the LORD to the house of Israel: "Seek me, and you will live;
The Emphasized Bible
For, thus, saith Yahweh, to the house of Israel, - Seek me, and live;
Webster
For thus saith the LORD to the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:
World English Bible
For thus says Yahweh to the house of Israel: "Seek me, and you will live;
Interlinear
Bayith
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Amos 5:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Lament And Call To Repentance
3 For thus said the Lord Jehovah: The city that is going out a thousand, Doth leave an hundred, And that which is going out an hundred, Doth leave ten to the house of Israel. 4 For thus said Jehovah to the house of Israel: Seek ye Me, and live, 5 And seek not Beth-El, and Gilgal enter not, And Beer-Sheba pass not through, For Gilgal doth utterly remove, And Beth-El doth become vanity.
Phrases
Cross References
Isaiah 55:3
Incline your ear, and come unto me, Hear, and your soul doth live, And I make for you a covenant age-during, The kind acts of David -- that are stedfast.
2 Chronicles 15:2
and he goeth out before Asa, and saith to him, 'Hear, me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin; Jehovah is with you -- in your being with Him, and if ye seek Him, He is found of you, and if ye forsake Him, He forsaketh you;
Zephaniah 2:3
Seek Jehovah, all ye humble of the land, Who His judgment have done, Seek ye righteousness, seek humility, It may be ye are hidden in a day of the anger of Jehovah.
Deuteronomy 30:1-8
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,
1 Chronicles 28:9
'And thou, Solomon, my son, know the God of thy father, and serve Him with a perfect heart, and with a willing mind, for all hearts is Jehovah seeking, and every imagination of the thoughts He is understanding; if thou dost seek Him, He is found of thee, and if thou dost forsake Him, He casteth thee off for ever.
2 Chronicles 20:3
And Jehoshaphat feareth, and setteth his face to seek to Jehovah, and proclaimeth a fast over all Judah;
2 Chronicles 34:3
And in the eighth year of his reign (and he yet a youth), he hath begun to seek to the God of David his father, and in the twelfth year he hath begun to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the shrines, and the graven images, and the molten images.
Psalm 14:2
Jehovah from the heavens Hath looked on the sons of men, To see if there is a wise one -- seeking God.
Psalm 22:26
The humble do eat and are satisfied, Praise Jehovah do those seeking Him, Your heart doth live for ever.
Psalm 27:8
To Thee said my heart 'They sought my face, Thy face, O Jehovah, I seek.'
Psalm 69:32
The humble have seen -- they rejoice, Ye who seek God -- and your heart liveth.
Psalm 105:3-4
Boast yourselves in His Holy Name, The heart of those seeking Jehovah rejoiceth.
Isaiah 55:6-7
Seek ye Jehovah, while He is found, Call ye Him, while He is near,
Jeremiah 29:12-13
'And ye have called Me, and have gone, and have prayed unto Me, and I have hearkened unto you,
Lamentations 3:25-26
Good is Jehovah to those waiting for Him, To the soul that seeketh Him.
Amos 5:6
Seek ye Jehovah, and live, Lest He prosper as fire against the house of Joseph, And it hath consumed, And there is no quencher for Beth-El.
Matthew 7:8
for every one who is asking doth receive, and he who is seeking doth find, and to him who is knocking it shall be opened.