KJV 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.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Hosea 5:15
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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Then I will return to My place until they admit their guilt and seek My face; in their affliction they will earnestly seek Me.”
WEB 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.”
ASV 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.
YLT Young’s 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!’
Surrounding context — Hosea 5
12 Therefore [will] I [be] unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.
13 When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah [saw] his wound, then went Ephraim to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb: yet could he not heal you, nor cure you of your wound.
14 For I [will be] unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, [even] I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue [him].
15 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.
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Original-language word links
These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
אֵלֵ֤ךְH1980 · ha.lakhto go: wentאָשׁ֙וּבָה֙H7725 · shuvto return: returnאֶל־H413 · elto(wards)מְקוֹמִ֔יH4725 · ma.qomplaceעַ֥דH5704 · adtillאֲשֶֽׁר־H834 · a.sherwhichיֶאְשְׁמ֖וּH816 · a.shambe guiltyוּבִקְשׁ֣וּH1245 · ba.qashto seekפָנָ֑יH6440 · pa.nehface: beforeבַּצַּ֥רH6862 · tsarnarrowלָהֶ֖םH9038 · hemthemיְשַׁחֲרֻֽנְנִי׃H7836 · sha.charto seek
Cross-references
Isaiah 26:16LORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer [when] thy chastening [was] upon them.Jeremiah 29:12-14Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.Psalm 78:34When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and inquired early after God.Deuteronomy 4:29-31But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find [him], if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.Leviticus 26:40-42If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;Psalm 50:15And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.Jeremiah 3:13Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the LORD.Luke 13:25When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye 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:Ezekiel 6:9And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols: and they shall lothe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.Job 27:8-10For what [is] the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?Isaiah 26:9With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments [are] in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.Ezekiel 36:31Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings that [were] not good, and shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.Jeremiah 2:27Saying to a stock, Thou [art] my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned [their] back unto me, and not [their] face: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.Hosea 3:5Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God, and David their king; and shall fear the LORD and his goodness in the latter days.Psalm 83:16Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O LORD.Isaiah 26:21For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.Deuteronomy 30:1-3And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call [them] to mind among all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee,Exodus 25:21-22And thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee.
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