Hosea 5:15
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Then I will return to My place until they admit their guilt and seek My face; in their affliction they will earnestly seek Me.””
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“Then I will return to My place until they admit their guilt and seek My face; in their affliction they will earnestly seek Me.””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
King James Version · Public Domain“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 · Public Domain“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!'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Hosea 5:15 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 25:21Set the mercy seat atop the ark, and put the Testimony that I will give you into the ark.
- Leviticus 26:40But if they will confess their iniquity and that of their fathers in the unfaithfulness that they practiced against Me, by which they have also walked in hostility toward Me—
- Deuteronomy 4:29But if from there you will seek the LORD your God, you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
- Deuteronomy 30:1“When all these things come upon you—the blessings and curses I have set before you—and you call them to mind in all the nations to which the LORD your God has banished you,
- Judges 4:3Then the Israelites cried out to the LORD, because Jabin had nine hundred chariots of iron, and he had harshly oppressed the Israelites for twenty years.
- Judges 6:6Israel was greatly impoverished by Midian, and the Israelites cried out to the LORD.
- Judges 10:10Then the Israelites cried out to the LORD, saying, “We have sinned against You, for we have indeed forsaken our God and served the Baals.”
- 1 Kings 8:10And when the priests came out of the Holy Place, the cloud filled the house of the LORD
- 1 Kings 8:47and when they come to their senses in the land to which they were taken, and they repent and plead with You in the land of their captors, saying, ‘We have sinned and done wrong; we have acted wickedly,’
- 2 Chronicles 6:36When they sin against You—for there is no one who does not sin—and You become angry with them and deliver them to an enemy who takes them as captives to a land far or near,
- 2 Chronicles 7:14and if My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.
- 2 Chronicles 33:12And in his distress, Manasseh sought the favor of the LORD his God and earnestly humbled himself before the God of his fathers.
- Nehemiah 1:8Remember, I pray, the word that You commanded Your servant Moses when You said, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the nations,
- Job 27:8For what is the hope of the godless when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?
- Job 33:27Then he sings before men with these words: ‘I have sinned and perverted what was right; yet I did not get what I deserved.
- Psalms 50:15Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor Me.”
- Psalms 78:34When He slew them, they would seek Him; they repented and searched for God.
- Psalms 83:16Cover their faces with shame, that they may seek Your name, O LORD.
- Psalms 107:6Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and He delivered them from their distress.
- Psalms 107:13Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and He saved them from their distress.
- Psalms 107:19Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and He saved them from their distress.
- Psalms 107:28Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and He brought them out of their distress.
- Psalms 132:14“This is My resting place forever and ever; here I will dwell, for I have desired this home.
- Proverbs 1:27when your dread comes like a storm, and your destruction like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish overwhelm you.
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