Parallel Verses

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."

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.

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 to Ephraim like a lion, and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I myself will tear in pieces and go away. I will carry off, and there will be no one to deliver. 15 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."



Cross References

Psalm 78:34

When he killed them, then they inquired after him. They returned and sought God earnestly.

Isaiah 26:16

Yahweh, in trouble they have visited you. They poured out a prayer when your chastening was on them.

Jeremiah 2:27

who tell wood, 'You are my father;' and a stone, 'You have brought me out:' for they have turned their back to 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 confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against me, and also that, because they walked contrary to me,

Psalm 50:15

Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me."

Jeremiah 3:13

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

Ezekiel 6:9

Those of you that escape shall remember me among the nations where they shall be carried captive, how that I have been broken with their lewd heart, which has departed from me, and with their eyes, which play the prostitute after their idols: and they shall loathe themselves in their own sight for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.

Exodus 25:21-22

You shall put the mercy seat on top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the testimony that I will give you.

Deuteronomy 4:29-31

But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God, and you shall find him, when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.

Deuteronomy 30:1-3

It shall happen, when all these things have come on you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you shall call them to mind among all the nations, where Yahweh your God has driven you,

Judges 4:3

The children of Israel cried to Yahweh: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.

Judges 6:6-7

Israel was brought very low because of Midian; and the children of Israel cried to Yahweh.

Judges 10:10-16

The children of Israel cried to Yahweh, saying, "We have sinned against you, even because we have forsaken our God, and have served the Baals."

1 Kings 8:10-13

It came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house of Yahweh,

1 Kings 8:47-48

yet if they shall repent in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to you in the land of those who carried them captive, saying, 'We have sinned, and have done perversely; we have dealt wickedly;'

2 Chronicles 6:36-37

"If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn't sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to a land far off 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

When he was in distress, he begged Yahweh his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.

Nehemiah 1:8-9

"Remember, I beg you, the word that you commanded your servant Moses, saying, 'If you trespass, I will scatter you abroad among the peoples;

Job 27:8-10

For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?

Job 33:27

He sings before men, and says, 'I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it didn't profit me.

Psalm 83:16

Fill their faces with confusion, that they may seek your name, Yahweh.

Psalm 132:14

"This is my resting place forever. Here I will live, for I have desired it.

Proverbs 1:27-28

when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when your disaster comes on like a whirlwind; when distress and anguish come on you.

Proverbs 8:17

I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.

Isaiah 26:9

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

Isaiah 26:21

For, behold, Yahweh comes forth out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth also will disclose her blood, and will no longer cover her slain.

Isaiah 64:5-9

You meet him who rejoices and works righteousness, those who remember you in your ways. Behold, you were angry, and we sinned. We have been in sin for a long time; and shall we be saved?

Jeremiah 29:12-14

You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.

Jeremiah 31:18-20

I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself [thus], You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as a calf unaccustomed [to the yoke]: turn me, and I shall be turned; for you are Yahweh my God.

Ezekiel 8:6

He said to me, Son of man, do you see what they do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel do commit here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? But you shall again see yet other great abominations.

Ezekiel 10:4

The glory of Yahweh mounted 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 Yahweh's glory.

Ezekiel 11:23

The glory of Yahweh went up from the midst of the city, and stood on the mountain which is on the east side of the city.

Ezekiel 20:43

There you shall remember your ways, and all your doings, in which you have polluted yourselves; and you shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that you have committed.

Ezekiel 36:31

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

Daniel 9:4-12

I prayed to Yahweh my God, and made confession, and said, Oh, Lord, the great and dreadful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who love him and keep his commandments,

Hosea 3:5

Afterward the children of Israel shall return, and seek Yahweh their God, and David their king, and shall come with trembling to Yahweh and to his blessings in the last days.

Hosea 5:6

They will go with their flocks and with their herds to seek Yahweh; but they won't find him. He has withdrawn himself from them.

Hosea 14:1-3

Israel, return to Yahweh your God; for you have fallen because of your sin.

Micah 1:3

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

Zephaniah 2:1-3

Gather yourselves together, yes, gather together, you nation that has no shame,

Luke 13:25

When once the master of the house has risen up, and has shut the door, and you begin to stand outside, and to knock at the door, saying, 'Lord, Lord, open to us!' then he will answer and tell you, 'I don't know you or where you come from.'

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