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Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
I will go, and return to my place, till they wax faint, and seek me.
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.
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!'
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 I am unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a lion's whelp to the house of Judah. Even I, I will spoil them, and go my way. I will take them with me, and no man shall rescue them. 15 I will go, and return to my place, till they wax faint, and seek me.
Cross References
Psalm 78:34
When he slew them, they sought him, and turned them early, and inquired after God.
Isaiah 26:16
Lord, in trouble have they visited thee; they poured out their prayer while thy chastening was upon them.
Jeremiah 2:27
For they say to a stock, 'Thou art my father,' and to a stone, 'Thou hast begotten me.' Yea, they have turned their back upon me, and not their face. But in the time of their trouble, when they say, 'Stand up and help us!'
Leviticus 26:40-42
And they shall confess their misdeeds and the misdeeds of their fathers; in their trespasses which they have trespassed against me, and for that also that they have walked contrary unto me.
Psalm 50:15
And call upon me in the time of trouble; so will I hear thee, and thou shalt praise me."
Jeremiah 3:13
but on this condition, that thou know thy great blasphemy: Namely, that thou hast unfaithfully forsaken the LORD thy God, and hast made thyself partaker of strange gods under all green trees, but hast had no will to hear my voice, sayeth the LORD.
Ezekiel 6:9
And they that escape from you, shall think upon me among the Heathen, where they shall be in captivity. As for that whorish and unfaithful heart of theirs, wherewith they run away from me, I will break it: Yea, and put out those eyes of theirs, that committed fornication with their idols. Then shall they be ashamed, and displeased with their selves, for the wickedness and abominations, which they have done:
Exodus 25:21-22
And thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark, and in the ark thou shalt put the witness which I will give thee.
Deuteronomy 4:29-31
Neverthelater, ye shall seek the LORD your God even there, and shalt find him if thou seek him with all thine heart and with all thy soul.
Deuteronomy 30:1-3
When all these words are come upon thee, whether it be the blessing or the curse which I have set before thee; yet if thou turn unto thine heart among all the nations whither the LORD thy God hath thrust thee,
Judges 4:3
And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; He oppressed the children of Israel with power twenty years.
Judges 6:6-7
And so was Israel exceedingly impoverished by the Midianites and cried unto the LORD.
Judges 10:10-16
Then the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, saying, "We have sinned against thee: for we have forsaken our own God, and have served Baalim."
1 Kings 8:10-13
And when the priests were come out of the Holy place, then a cloud filled the house of the LORD,
1 Kings 8:47-48
yet if they turn again unto their hearts in the land where they be in captivity, and return and pray unto thee in the land of them that hold them captive, saying, 'We have sinned and have done wickedly and have trespassed,'
2 Chronicles 6:36-37
If they shall sin against thee - as there is no man, but that he shall sin - and thou be angry with them and deliver them to their enemies, and they lead them away captive unto a country far or nigh;
2 Chronicles 7:14
Yet if my people that are named after my name, shall humble themselves and pray and seek my presence, and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and be merciful to their sins, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 33:12-13
And when he was in tribulation he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself exceedingly before the God of his fathers,
Nehemiah 1:8-9
Yet call to remembrance the word that thou commandedst thy servant Moses, and saidest, 'If ye transgress, then will I scatter you abroad among the nations.
Job 27:8-10
What hope hath the hypocrite, though he have great good, and though God give him riches after his heart's desire?
Job 33:27
Such a respect hath he unto men. Therefore let a man confess, and say, 'I offended, but he hath chastened and reformed me: I did unrighteously nevertheless he hath not recompensed me thereafter.
Psalm 83:16
Make their faces ashamed, O LORD, that they may seek thy name.
Psalm 132:14
"This shall be my rest; here will I dwell, for I have a delight therein.
Proverbs 1:27-28
even when the thing that ye be afraid of, falleth in suddenly like a storm, and your misery like a tempest: yea, when trouble and heaviness cometh upon you.
Proverbs 8:17
I am loving unto those that love me, and they that seek me early, shall find me.
Isaiah 26:9
My soul lusteth after thee all the night long, and my mind hasteth freely to thee. For as soon as thy judgment is known to the world, then the inhabiters of the earth learn righteousness.
Isaiah 26:21
For behold, the LORD will go out of his habitation, and visit the wickedness of them that dwell upon earth. The earth also shall disclose her own blood, and shall no more hide those that are slain in her.
Isaiah 64:5-9
Thou helpest him that doth right with cheerfulness, and them that think upon thy ways. But lo, thou art angry: for we offend, and have been ever in sin, and there is not one whole.
Jeremiah 29:12-14
Ye shall cry unto me, ye shall go and call upon me, and I shall hear you.
Jeremiah 31:18-20
Moreover, I heard Ephraim, that was led away captive, complain on this manner, 'O LORD, thou hast corrected me, and thy chastening have I received, as an untamed calf. Convert thou me, and I shall be converted, for thou art my LORD God.
Ezekiel 8:6
And he said furthermore unto me, "Thou son of man, seest thou what these do? Seest thou the great abominations that the house of Israel commit in this place? Which ought not to be done in my sanctuary: But turn thee about, and thou shalt see yet greater abominations."
Ezekiel 10:4
But the glory of the LORD removed from the Cherubims, and came upon the threshold of the house: so that the temple was full of clouds, and the court was full of the shine of the LORD's glory.
Ezekiel 11:23
So the glory of the LORD went up from the midst of the city, and stood upon the mount of the city toward the east.
Ezekiel 20:43
There shall ye call to remembrance your own ways and all your imaginations, wherein ye have been defiled: and ye shall be displeased with your own selves, for all your wickedness, that ye have done.
Ezekiel 36:31
Then shall ye remember your own wicked ways, and your imaginations, which were not good: so that ye shall take displeasure at your own selves, by reason of your sins and abominations.
Daniel 9:4-12
I prayed before the LORD my God, and knowledged, saying, "O LORD, thou great and fearful God, thou that keepest covenant and mercy with them which love thee, and do thy commandments:
Hosea 3:5
But afterward shall the children of Israel convert, and seek the LORD their God, and David their king: and in the latter days they shall worship the LORD, and his loving-kindness.
Hosea 5:6
They shall come with their sheep and bullocks to seek the LORD, but they shall not find him, for he is gone from them.
Hosea 14:1-3
Turn Israel unto the LORD thy God: For thou art fallen for thy wickednesses' sake.
Micah 1:3
For why? Behold, the LORD shall go out of his place, and come down, and tread upon the high things of the earth.
Zephaniah 2:1-3
Come together and gather you, O ye froward people:
Luke 13:25
When the good man of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, ye shall 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 whence ye are.'