Hosea 5:6

Webster's Bible (1833)

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 He has withdrawn himself from them.

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  • Prov 1:28 : 28 Then will they call on me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me;
  • Mic 6:6-7 : 6 How shall I come before Yahweh, And bow myself before the exalted God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, With calves a year old? 7 Will Yahweh be pleased with thousands of rams? With tens of thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my disobedience? The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
  • Jer 7:4 : 4 Don't you trust in lying words, saying, The temple of Yahweh, the temple of Yahweh, the temple of Yahweh, are these.
  • Lam 3:44 : 44 You have covered yourself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.
  • Ezek 8:6 : 6 He said to me, Son of man, see you 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.
  • Prov 15:8 : 8 The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, But the prayer of the upright is his delight.
  • Isa 1:11-15 : 11 "What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?," says Yahweh. "I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams, And the fat of fed animals. I don't delight in the blood of bulls, Or of lambs, Or of male goats. 12 When you come to appear before me, Who has required this at your hand, to trample my courts? 13 Bring no more vain offerings. Incense is an abomination to me; New moons, Sabbaths, and convocations: I can't bear with evil assemblies. 14 My soul hates your New Moons and your appointed feasts; They are a burden to me. I am weary of bearing them. 15 When you spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.
  • John 7:34 : 34 You will seek me, and won't find me; and where I am, you can't come."
  • Isa 66:3 : 3 He who kills an ox is as he who kills a man; he who sacrifices a lamb, as he who breaks a dog's neck; he who offers an offering, [as he who offers] pig's blood; he who burns frankincense, as he who blesses an idol. Yes, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations:
  • Exod 10:9 : 9 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 to Yahweh."
  • Exod 10:24-26 : 24 Pharaoh called to Moses, and said, "Go, serve Yahweh. Only let your flocks and your herds stay behind. Let your little ones also go with you." 25 Moses said, "You must also give into our hand sacrifices and burnt-offerings, that we may sacrifice to Yahweh our God. 26 Our cattle also shall go with us. There shall not a hoof be left behind, for of it we must take to serve Yahweh our God; and we don't know with what we must serve Yahweh, until we come there."
  • Prov 21:27 : 27 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination: How much more, when he brings it with a wicked mind!
  • Song 5:6 : 6 I opened to my beloved; But my beloved left; gone away. My heart went out when he spoke. I looked for him, but I didn't find him. I called him, but he didn't answer.
  • Ezek 8:18 : 18 Therefore will I also deal in wrath; my eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity; and though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.
  • Amos 5:21-23 : 21 I hate, I despise your feasts, And I can't stand your solemn assemblies. 22 Yes, though you offer me your burnt offerings and meal-offerings, I will not accept them; Neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat animals. 23 Take away from me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.
  • Jer 11:11 : 11 Therefore thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will bring evil on them, which they shall not be able to escape; and they shall cry to me, but I will not listen to them.
  • Luke 5:16 : 16 But he withdrew himself into the desert, and prayed.
  • Mic 3:4 : 4 Then they will cry to Yahweh, But he will not answer them. Yes, he will hide his face from them at that time, Because they made their deeds evil."

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Hos 5:3-5
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    3 I know Ephraim, And Israel is not hidden from me; For now, Ephraim, you have played the prostitute. Israel is defiled.

    4 Their deeds won't allow them to turn to their God; For the spirit of prostitution is within them, And they don't know Yahweh.

    5 The pride of Israel testifies to his face. Therefore Israel and Ephraim will stumble in their iniquity. Judah also will stumble with them.

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

    5 They shall inquire concerning Zion with their faces turned toward it, [saying], Come you, and join yourselves to Yahweh in an everlasting covenant that shall not be forgotten.

    6 My 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.

  • 12 They will wander from sea to sea, And from the north even to the east; They will run back and forth to seek the word of Yahweh, And will not find it.

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

    6 My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and on every high hill: yes, my sheep were scattered on all the surface of the earth; and there was none who searched or sought.

  • 6 those who have turned back from following Yahweh, and those who haven't sought Yahweh nor inquired after him.

  • 10 The pride of Israel testifies to his face; Yet they haven't returned to Yahweh their God, Nor sought him, for all this.

  • 28 Then will they call on me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me;

  • 17 My God will cast them away, because they did not listen to him; And they will be wanderers among the nations.

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

  • 10 Thus says Yahweh to this people, Even so have they loved to wander; they have not refrained their feet: therefore Yahweh does not accept them; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.

  • 6 According to their pasture, so were they filled; They were filled, and their heart was exalted. Therefore they have forgotten me.

  • 4 Then they will cry to Yahweh, But he will not answer them. Yes, he will hide his face from them at that time, Because they made their deeds evil."

  • 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."

  • 5 thus says Yahweh, What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?

  • 7 They are unfaithful to Yahweh; For they have borne illegitimate children. Now the new moon will devour them with their fields.

  • Hos 4:16-17
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    16 For Israel has behaved extremely stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer. Then how will Yahweh feed them like a lamb in a meadow.

    17 Ephraim is joined to idols. Leave him alone!

  • 13 Yahweh says, 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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    6 Therefore a lion out of the forest shall kill them, a wolf of the evenings shall destroy them, a leopard shall watch against their cities; everyone who goes out there shall be torn in pieces; because their transgressions are many, [and] their backsliding is increased.

    7 How can I pardon you? your 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 prostitutes' houses.

  • 13 Woe to them! For they have wandered from me. Destruction to them! For they have trespassed against me. Though I would redeem them, Yet they have spoken lies against me.

  • 13 Yet the people have not turned to him who struck them, neither have they sought Yahweh of Hosts.

  • 2 For 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 oppressed, because there is no shepherd.

  • 10 They will eat, and not have enough. They will play the prostitute, and will not increase; Because they have abandoned giving to Yahweh.

  • 5 The inhabitants of Samaria will be in terror for the calves of Beth Aven; For its people will mourn over it, Along with its priests who rejoiced over it, For its glory, because it has departed from it.

  • 6 Turn you to him from whom you have deeply revolted, children of Israel.

  • 14 It shall happen, that as the chased roe, and as sheep that no man gathers, 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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    20 Surely as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so have you dealt treacherously with me, house of Israel, says Yahweh.

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

  • 7 My people are determined to turn from me. Though they call to the Most High, He certainly won't exalt them.

  • 5 But don't seek Bethel, Nor enter into Gilgal, And don't pass to Beersheba: For Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, And Bethel shall come to nothing.

  • 4 But when in their distress they turned to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and sought him, he was found of them.

  • 6 You have rejected me, says Yahweh, you are gone backward: therefore have I stretched out my hand against you, and destroyed you; I am weary with repenting.

  • 5 For Israel is not forsaken, nor Judah, of his God, of Yahweh of Hosts; though their land is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel.

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

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

  • 16 The anger of Yahweh has scattered them; he will no more regard them: They didn't respect the persons of the priests, they didn't favor the elders.

  • 17 Then 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 on them; so that they will say in that day, Haven't these evils come on us because our God is not among us?

  • 11 Therefore thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will bring evil on them, which they shall not be able to escape; and they shall cry to me, but I will not listen to them.

  • 11 Then shall you tell them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, says Yahweh, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshiped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law;

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

  • 3 Israel has cast off that which is good. The enemy will pursue him.

  • 6 For, behold, they have gone away from destruction. Egypt will gather them up. Memphis will bury them. Nettles will possess their pleasant things of silver. Thorns will be in their tents.

  • 19 It shall happen, when you shall say, Why has Yahweh our God done all these things to us? then shall you say to them, Like as you have forsaken me, and served foreign gods in your land, so shall you serve strangers in a land that is not yours.

  • 12 And Yahweh has removed men far away, And the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.