Hosea 5:6

American Standard Version (1901)

They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek Jehovah; but they shall not find him: he hath withdrawn himself from them.

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  • Prov 1:28 : 28 Then will they call upon me, but I will not answer; They will seek me diligently, but they shall not find me:
  • Mic 6:6-7 : 6 Wherewith shall I come before Jehovah, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt-offerings, with calves a year old? 7 will Jehovah be pleased with thousands of rams, [or] with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my first-born for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
  • Jer 7:4 : 4 Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of Jehovah, the temple of Jehovah, the temple of Jehovah, are these.
  • Lam 3:44 : 44 Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.
  • Ezek 8:6 : 6 And he said unto me, Son of man, seest thou 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 thou shalt again see yet other great abominations.
  • Prov 15:8 : 8 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to Jehovah; But the prayer of the upright is his delight.
  • Isa 1:11-15 : 11 What unto me is the multitude of your sacrifices? saith Jehovah: I have had enough of the burnt-offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he-goats. 12 When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to trample my courts? 13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; new moon and sabbath, the calling of assemblies,-- I cannot away with iniquity and the solemn meeting. [ 14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth; they are a trouble unto me; I am weary of bearing them. 15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you; yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
  • John 7:34 : 34 Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, ye cannot come.
  • Isa 66:3 : 3 He that killeth an ox is as he that slayeth a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as he that breaketh a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, [as he that offereth] swine's blood; he that [ burneth frankincense, as he that blesseth an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations:
  • Exod 10:9 : 9 And Moses said, We will go with our young and with our old; with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we must hold a feast unto Jehovah.
  • Exod 10:24-26 : 24 And Pharaoh called unto Moses, and said, Go ye, serve Jehovah; only let your flocks and your herds be stayed: let your little ones also go with you. 25 And Moses said, Thou must also give into our hand sacrifices and burnt-offerings, that we may sacrifice unto Jehovah our God. 26 Our cattle also shall go with us; there shall not a hoof be left behind; for thereof must we take to serve Jehovah our God; and we know not with what we must serve Jehovah, until we come thither.
  • Prov 21:27 : 27 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination: How much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind!
  • Song 5:6 : 6 I opened to my beloved; But my beloved had withdrawn himself, [and] was gone. My soul had failed me when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.
  • Ezek 8:18 : 18 Therefore will I also deal in wrath; mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity; and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.
  • Amos 5:21-23 : 21 I hate, I despise your feasts, and I will take no delight in your solemn assemblies. 22 Yea, though ye offer me your burnt-offerings and meal-offerings, I will not accept them; neither will I regard the peace-offerings of your fat beasts. 23 Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.
  • Jer 11:11 : 11 Therefore thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and they shall cry unto me, but I will not hearken unto them.
  • Luke 5:16 : 16 But he withdrew himself in the deserts, and prayed.
  • Mic 3:4 : 4 Then shall they cry unto Jehovah, but he will not answer them; yea, he will hide his face from them at that time, according as they have wrought evil in their doings.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Hos 5:3-5
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    3I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me; for now, O Ephraim, thou hast played the harlot, Israel is defiled.

    4Their doings will not suffer them to turn unto their God; for the spirit of whoredom is within them, and they know not Jehovah.

    5And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore Israel and Ephraim shall stumble in their iniquity; Judah also shall stumble with them.

  • Jer 50:4-6
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    4In those days, and in that time, saith Jehovah, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together; they shall go on their way weeping, and shall seek Jehovah their God.

    5They shall inquire concerning Zion with their faces thitherward, [saying], Come ye, and join yourselves to Jehovah in an everlasting covenant that shall not be forgotten.

    6My people have been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray; they have turned them away on the mountains; they have gone from mountain to hill; they have forgotten their resting-place.

  • Amos 8:12
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    12And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east; they shall run to and fro to seek the word of Jehovah, and shall not find it.

  • Ezek 34:5-6
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    5And they were scattered, because there was no shepherd; and they became food to all the beasts of the field, and were scattered.

    6My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill: yea, my sheep were scattered upon all the face of the earth; and there was none that did search or seek [after them] .

  • Zeph 1:6
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    6and them that are turned back from following Jehovah; and those that have not sought Jehovah, nor inquired after him.

  • Hos 7:10
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    10And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: yet they have not returned unto Jehovah their God, nor sought him, for all this.

  • Prov 1:28
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    28Then will they call upon me, but I will not answer; They will seek me diligently, but they shall not find me:

  • Hos 9:17
    76%

    17My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him; and they shall be wanderers among the nations.

  • Jer 10:21
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    21For the shepherds are become brutish, and have not inquired of Jehovah: therefore they have not prospered, and all their flocks are scattered.

  • Jer 14:10
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    10Thus saith Jehovah unto this people, Even so have they loved to wander; they have not refrained their feet: therefore Jehovah doth not accept them; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.

  • Hos 13:6
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    6According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted: therefore have they forgotten me.

  • Mic 3:4
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    4Then shall they cry unto Jehovah, but he will not answer them; yea, he will hide his face from them at that time, according as they have wrought evil in their doings.

  • Hos 5:15
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    15I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me earnestly.

  • Jer 2:5
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    5thus saith Jehovah, What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?

  • Hos 5:7
    74%

    7They have dealt treacherously against Jehovah; for they have borne strange children: now shall the new moon devour them with their fields.

  • Hos 4:16-17
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    74%

    16For Israel hath behaved himself stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer: now will Jehovah feed them as a lamb in a large place.

    17Ephraim is joined to idols; let him alone.

  • Jer 9:13
    74%

    13And Jehovah saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein,

  • Jer 5:6-7
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    6Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, a wolf of the evenings shall destroy them, a leopard shall watch against their cities; every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces; because their transgressions are many, [and] their backslidings are increased.

    7How can I pardon thee? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods. When I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the harlots' houses.

  • Hos 7:13
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    13Woe unto them! for they have wandered from me; destruction unto them! for they have trespassed against me: though I would redeem them, yet they have spoken lies against me.

  • Isa 9:13
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    13Yet the people have not turned unto him that smote them, neither have they sought Jehovah of hosts.

  • Zech 10:2
    73%

    2For the teraphim have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie; and they have told false dreams, they comfort in vain: therefore they go their way like sheep, they are afflicted, because there is no shepherd.

  • Hos 4:10
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    10And they shall eat, and not have enough; they shall play the harlot, and shall not increase; because they have left off taking heed to Jehovah.

  • Hos 10:5
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    5The inhabitants of Samaria shall be in terror for the calves of Beth-aven; for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof that rejoiced over it, for the glory thereof, because it is departed from it.

  • Isa 31:6
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    6Turn ye unto him from whom ye have deeply revolted, O children of Israel.

  • Isa 13:14
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    14And it shall come to pass, that as the chased roe, and as sheep that no man gathereth, they shall turn every man to his own people, and shall flee every man to his own land.

  • Jer 3:20-21
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    73%

    20Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith Jehovah.

    21A voice is heard upon the bare heights, the weeping [and] the supplications of the children of Israel; because they have perverted their way, they have forgotten Jehovah their God.

  • Hos 11:7
    73%

    7And my people are bent on backsliding from me: though they call them to [him that is] on high, none at all will exalt [him] .

  • Amos 5:5
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    5but seek not Beth-el, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beer-sheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Beth-el shall come to nought.

  • 2 Chr 15:4
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    4But when in their distress they turned unto Jehovah, the God of Israel, and sought him, he was found of them.

  • Jer 15:6
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    6Thou hast rejected me, saith Jehovah, thou art gone backward: therefore have I stretched out my hand against thee, and destroyed thee; I am weary with repenting.

  • Jer 51:5
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    5For Israel is not forsaken, nor Judah, of his God, of Jehovah of hosts; though their land is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel.

  • Jer 25:35-36
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    35And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal of the flock to escape.

    36A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and the wailing of the principal of the flock! for Jehovah layeth waste their pasture.

  • Lam 4:16
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    16The anger of Jehovah hath scattered them; He will no more regard them: They respected not the persons of the priests, they favored not the elders.

  • Deut 31:17
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    17Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come upon them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us because our God is not among us?

  • Jer 11:11
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    11Therefore thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and they shall cry unto me, but I will not hearken unto them.

  • Jer 16:11
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    11Then shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, saith Jehovah, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law;

  • Jer 5:12
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    12They have denied Jehovah, and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine:

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    3Israel hath cast off that which is good: the enemy shall pursue him.

  • Hos 9:6
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    6For, lo, they are gone away from destruction; [yet] Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them; their pleasant things of silver, nettles shall possess them; thorns shall be in their tents.

  • Jer 5:19
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    19And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore hath Jehovah our God done all these things unto us? then shalt thou say unto them, Like as ye have forsaken me, and served foreign gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not yours.

  • Isa 6:12
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    12and Jehovah have removed men far away, and the forsaken places be many in the midst of the land.