Parallel Verses

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.

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.

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 them and go away; I will take them away, and none shall rescue him. 15  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.



Cross References

Psalm 78:34

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

Isaiah 26:16

LORD, in trouble have they visited you, they poured out a prayer when your chastening was upon them.

Jeremiah 2:27

Saying to a tree, You are my father; and to a stone, You have brought me forth: for they have turned their back unto me, and not their face: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.

Leviticus 26:40-42

If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with 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 you, and you shall glorify me.

Jeremiah 3:13

Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed against the LORD your God, and have scattered your favors to the strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed my voice, says the LORD.

Ezekiel 6:9

And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations where they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their adulterous heart, which has departed from me, and with their eyes, which play the harlot after their idols: and they shall loathe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.

Exodus 25:21-22

And you shall put the mercy seat on top of the ark; and in the ark you shall put the testimony that I shall give you.

Deuteronomy 4:29-31

But if from there you shall seek the LORD your God, you shall find him, if you seek him with all your heart and with all your soul.

Deuteronomy 30:1-3

And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you shall call them to mind among all the nations, where the LORD your God has driven you,

Judges 4:3

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

Judges 6:6-7

And Israel was greatly impoverished because of the Midianites; and the children of Israel cried unto the LORD.

Judges 10:10-16

And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, saying, We have sinned against you, both because we have forsaken our God, and also served Baalim.

1 Kings 8:10-13

And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house of the LORD,

1 Kings 8:47-48

Yet if they shall come to themselves in the land where they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication unto you in the land of them that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness;

2 Chronicles 6:36-37

If they sin against you, (for there is no man who sins not,) and you are angry with them, and deliver them over to their enemies, and they carry them away captives unto a land far or near;

2 Chronicles 7:14

If my people, who are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

2 Chronicles 33:12-13

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

Nehemiah 1:8-9

Remember, I beseech you, the word that you commanded your servant Moses, saying, If you transgress, I will scatter you abroad among the nations:

Job 27:8-10

For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he has gained, 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 profited me not;

Psalm 83:16

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

Psalm 132:14

This is my rest forever: here will I dwell; for I have desired it.

Proverbs 1:27-28

When your terror comes as desolation, and your destruction comes as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish comes upon you.

Proverbs 8:17

I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.

Isaiah 26:9

With my soul have I desired you in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek you early: for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.

Isaiah 26:21

For, behold, the LORD comes out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her bloodshed, and shall no more cover her slain.

Isaiah 64:5-9

You meet him that rejoices and works righteousness, those that remember you in your ways: behold, you are angry; for we have sinned: in those ways is continuance, and we shall be saved.

Jeremiah 29:12-14

Then shall you call upon me, and you shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.

Jeremiah 31:18-20

I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: restore me, and I shall return; for you are the LORD my God.

Ezekiel 8:6

He said furthermore unto me, Son of man, see you what they do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel commits here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? but turn you yet again, and you shall see greater abominations.

Ezekiel 10:4

Then the glory of the LORD went up from the cherub, and stood over the threshold of the house; 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 shall you remember your ways, and all your doings, in which you have been defiled; and you shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that you have committed.

Ezekiel 36:31

Then shall you 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, O Lord, the great and awesome God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments;

Hosea 3:5

Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God, and David their king; and shall fear the LORD and his goodness in the latter days.

Hosea 5:6

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

Hosea 14:1-3

O Israel, return unto the LORD your God; for you have fallen because of your 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

Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired;

Luke 13:25

When once the Master of the house is risen up, and has shut the door, and you begin to stand outside, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know not where you come from:

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