Hosea 5:6

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the LORD; but they shall not find him; he hath withdrawn himself from them.

Go

Micah 6:6

They

He

Song of Songs 5:6

Luke 5:16

General references

John 7:34

Bible References

Go

And Moses said, "With our young and with our old we will go; with our sons and with our daughters, with our sheep and goats and with our cattle we will go because [it is] the feast of Yahweh for us."

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination of Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright [is] his delight.

The sacrifice of the wicked [is] an abomination; how much more when he brings it in divisiveness!

Do not trust in {the deceitful words}, {saying}, 'The temple of Yahweh, the temple of Yahweh, they [are] the temple of Yahweh.'

With what shall I approach Yahweh, and bow down to God on high? Shall I approach him with burnt offerings, with bull calves a year old?

They

then they will call me, but I will not answer; they will seek me diligently but not find me.

What [is the] abundance of your sacrifices to me? says Yahweh. I have had enough [of] burnt offerings of rams and [the] fat [of] fattened animals and I do not delight in [the] blood of bulls and ram-lambs and goats.

The one who slaughters bull strikes a man; the one who slaughters lamb for sacrifice breaks the neck [of] a dog. The one who offers an offering, [the] blood of swine; the one who offers frankincense blesses an idol. Indeed, they themselves have chosen their ways, and their soul delights in their abhorrence.

{Therefore} thus says Yahweh, "I [am] about to bring on them disaster from which they will not be able to escape. Though they cry out to me, yet I will not listen to them.

You have covered yourself in a cloud {so that prayer cannot pass through}.

And so I will act in rage, and my eye will not take pity, and I will not have compassion, and they will cry in my ear [with] a loud voice, and I will not hear them."

"I hate, I despise your festivals, and I take no delight in your assemblies.

Then they will cry to Yahweh, but he will not answer them. He will hide his face from them at that time, when they have made their deeds evil.

You will seek me and will not find [me], and where I am, you cannot come."

He

I opened myself to my beloved, but my beloved had turned and gone; my heart sank when he turned away. I sought him, but I did not find him; I called him, but he did not answer me.

But he himself was withdrawing in the wilderness and praying.

General references

You will seek me and will not find [me], and where I am, you cannot come."