Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

I will go away and return to My place
Until they acknowledge their guilt and seek My face;
In their affliction they will earnestly seek Me.

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

I will depart and return to My place
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."

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!'

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
I will go
ילך 
Yalak 
Usage: 0

and return
שׁוּב 
Shuwb 
Usage: 1058

to my place
מקמה מקומה מקם מקום 
Maqowm 
Usage: 401

and seek
בּקשׁ 
Baqash 
Usage: 225

my face
פּנים 
Paniym 
Usage: 2119

Devotionals

Devotionals about Hosea 5:15

References

Context Readings

The Priests Are A Snare

14 For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion and as a young lion to the house of Judah; I, even I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and there shall be no one left to escape. 15 I will go away and return to My place
Until they acknowledge their guilt and seek My face;
In their affliction they will earnestly seek Me.

Cross References

Psalm 78:34

When he slew them, then they sought him, and they returned and enquired early after God.

Isaiah 26:16

LORD, in the tribulation they have sought thee, they poured out prayer when thy chastening was upon them.

Jeremiah 2:27

saying to a piece of firewood, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned their back unto me, and not their face: but in the time of their trouble they say, Arise and deliver us.

Leviticus 26:40-42

And they shall confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers for their trespass which they trespassed against me and that also they have walked contrary unto me,

Psalm 50:15

and call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.

Jeremiah 3:13

Only acknowledge thine iniquity that thou hast rebelled against the LORD thy God and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not heard my voice, said the LORD.

Ezekiel 6:9

And those that escape of you shall remember me among the Gentiles where they shall be carried captives because I am broken because of your whorish heart, which has departed from me and because of your eyes, which went a whoring after your idols: and they shall loathe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.

Exodus 25:21-22

And thou shalt put the seat of reconciliation above upon the ark, and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee.

Deuteronomy 4:29-31

But if from there, thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find him if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.

Deuteronomy 30:1-3

And it shall come to pass when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse which I have set before thee, and thou shalt return unto thy heart among all the Gentiles, where the LORD thy God shall have driven thee,

Judges 4:3

And the sons of Israel cried unto the LORD, for he had nine hundred chariots of iron, and he had mightily oppressed the sons of Israel for twenty years.

Judges 6:6-7

And Israel was greatly impoverished because of the Midianites, and the sons of Israel cried unto the LORD.

Judges 10:10-16

And the sons of Israel cried unto the LORD, saying, We have sinned against thee because we have forsaken our God and served the Baalim.

1 Kings 8:10-13

And when the priests came out of the holy place, the cloud filled the house of the LORD.

1 Kings 8:47-48

and they return unto their heart in the land where they were carried captives and return and make supplication unto thee in the land of those that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned and have done iniquity, we have committed wickedness;

2 Chronicles 6:36-37

If they sin against thee (for there is no man who does not sin,)and thou art angry with them and deliver them over before their enemies so that those that take them carry them away captives unto an enemy land far off or near,

2 Chronicles 7:14

if my people, upon whom my name is invoked, shall humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from the heavens and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.

2 Chronicles 33:12-13

And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,

Nehemiah 1:8-9

Remember, I beseech thee, the word that thou didst command thy slave Moses, saying, If ye transgress, I will scatter you abroad among the peoples;

Job 27:8-10

For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he has stolen much, when God takes away his soul?

Job 33:27

He looks upon men, and if any say, I have sinned and perverted that which was right, and it did not profit me;

Psalm 83:16

Fill their faces with shame that they may seek thy name, O LORD.

Psalm 132:14

This shall be my rest for ever; here I will dwell; for I have desired her.

Proverbs 1:27-28

when what you have feared comes as destruction, and your calamity comes as a whirlwind; when tribulation and anguish come upon you.

Proverbs 8:17

I love those that love me, and those that seek me early shall find me.

Isaiah 26:9

With my soul I desire thee in the night; yea, even as long as the spirit is within me I will seek thee early: for as long as thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

Isaiah 26:21

For, behold, the LORD comes out of his place to visit the iniquity of the inhabitant of the earth against himself: the earth also shall disclose her blood and shall no longer cover her slain.

Isaiah 64:5-9

Thou didst come out to meet him that with rejoicing had worked righteous ness. In thy ways they remembered thee. Behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: thy ways are eternal, and we shall be saved.

Jeremiah 29:12-14

Then ye shall call upon me, and ye shall walk in my ways and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.

Jeremiah 31:18-20

I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus, Thou hast afflicted me, and I was chastised as an indomitable bullock: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the LORD my God.

Ezekiel 8:6

He said furthermore unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel commits here to cause me to go far away from my sanctuary? but turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations.

Ezekiel 10:4

And the glory of the LORD had gone up from the cherubim to the threshold of the door, and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of the LORD's glory.

Ezekiel 11:23

And the glory of the LORD went up from the midst of the city and stood upon the mountain which is on the east side of the city.

Ezekiel 20:43

And there ye shall remember your ways and all your doings, in which ye have been defiled; and ye shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that ye have committed.

Ezekiel 36:31

Then ye shall remember your own evil ways and your doings that were not good and shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.

Daniel 9:4-12

and I prayed unto the LORD my God and made my confession and said, Now O Lord, thou great God who is worthy to be feared, who keeps the covenant and the mercy with those that love thee and keep thy commandments;

Hosea 3:5

afterward the sons of Israel shall return, and they shall seek the LORD their God and David their king; and they shall fear the LORD and his goodness in the end of the days.

Hosea 5:6

They shall go with their flocks and with their herds seeking the LORD; but they shall not find him; he has withdrawn himself from them.

Hosea 14:1-3

O Israel, become converted unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.

Micah 1:3

For, behold, the LORD comes forth out of his place and will come down and tread upon the high places of the earth.

Zephaniah 2:1-3

Search yourselves and one another, O unfriendly people;

Luke 13:25

When once the husband of the house is risen up and shall have shut the door, and ye begin to stand without and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not from where ye are,

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