Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version When they go with their flocks and herds to seek the LORD, they will not find him; he has withdrawn himself from them. New Living Translation When they come with their flocks and herds to offer sacrifices to the LORD, they will not find him, because he has withdrawn from them. English Standard Version With their flocks and herds they shall go to seek the LORD, but they will not find him; he has withdrawn from them. Berean Standard Bible They go with their flocks and herds to seek the LORD, but they do not find Him; He has withdrawn Himself from them. King James Bible They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the LORD; but they shall not find him; he hath withdrawn himself from them. New King James Version “With their flocks and herds They shall go to seek the LORD, But they will not find Him; He has withdrawn Himself from them. New American Standard Bible They will go with their flocks and herds To seek the LORD, but they will not find Him; He has withdrawn from them. NASB 1995 They will go with their flocks and herds To seek the LORD, but they will not find Him; He has withdrawn from them. NASB 1977 They will go with their flocks and herds To seek the LORD, but they will not find Him; He has withdrawn from them. Legacy Standard Bible They will go with their flocks and herds To seek Yahweh, but they will not find Him; He has withdrawn from them. Amplified Bible They will go with their flocks and with their herds To seek the LORD [diligently searching for Him], but they will not find Him; He has withdrawn from them [refusing to hear the prayers of the unrepentant]. Christian Standard Bible They go with their flocks and herds to seek the LORD but do not find him; he has withdrawn from them. Holman Christian Standard Bible They go with their flocks and herds to seek the LORD but do not find Him; He has withdrawn from them. American Standard Version They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek Jehovah; but they shall not find him: he hath withdrawn himself from them. Aramaic Bible in Plain English With their sheep and with their oxen they shall go to seek LORD JEHOVAH and they shall not find him, because he has separated himself from them Brenton Septuagint Translation They shall go with sheep and calves diligently to seek the Lord; but they shall not find him, for he has withdrawn himself from them. Contemporary English Version You offer sheep and cattle as sacrifices to me, but I have turned away and refuse to be found. Douay-Rheims Bible With their flocks, and with their herds, they shall go to seek the Lord, and shall not find him: he is withdrawn from them. English Revised Version 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. GOD'S WORD® Translation They go with their sheep and their cattle to search for the LORD, but they can't find him. He has left them. Good News Translation They take their sheep and cattle to offer as sacrifices to the LORD, but it does them no good. They cannot find him, for he has left them. International Standard Version They will go with their flocks and herds to seek the LORD, but they will not find him; he has withdrawn from them. JPS Tanakh 1917 With their flocks and with their herds they shall go To seek the LORD, but they shall not find Him; He hath withdrawn Himself from them. Literal Standard Version With their flock and with their herd, | They go to seek YHWH, and do not find, | He has withdrawn from them. Majority Standard Bible They go with their flocks and herds to seek the LORD, but they do not find Him; He has withdrawn Himself from them. New American Bible With their flocks and herds they will go to seek the LORD, but will not find him; he has withdrawn from them. NET Bible Although they bring their flocks and herds to seek the favor of the LORD, They will not find him--he has withdrawn himself from them! New Revised Standard Version With their flocks and herds they shall go to seek the LORD, but they will not find him; he has withdrawn from them. New Heart English Bible They will go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the LORD; but they won't find him. He has withdrawn himself from them. Webster's Bible Translation 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. World English Bible 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. Young's Literal Translation With their flock and with their herd, They go to seek Jehovah, and do not find, He hath withdrawn from them. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context God's Judgment on Israel and Judah…5Israel’s arrogance testifies against them; Israel and Ephraim stumble in their iniquity; even Judah stumbles with them. 6They go with their flocks and herds to seek the LORD, but they do not find Him; He has withdrawn Himself from them. 7They have been unfaithful to the LORD; for they have borne illegitimate children. Now the New Moon will devour them along with their land.… Cross References Proverbs 1:28 Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; they will earnestly seek me, but will not find me. Isaiah 1:15 When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; even though you multiply your prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood. Jeremiah 11:14 As for you, do not pray for these people. Do not raise up a cry or a prayer on their behalf, for I will not be listening when they call out to Me in their time of disaster. Jeremiah 14:12 Although they may fast, I will not listen to their cry; although they may offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Instead, I will finish them off by sword and famine and plague." Ezekiel 8:6 "Son of man," He said to me, "do you see what they are doing--the great abominations that the house of Israel is committing--to drive Me far from My sanctuary? Yet you will see even greater abominations." Hosea 8:13 Though they offer sacrifices as gifts to Me, and though they eat the meat, the LORD does not accept them. Now He will remember their iniquity and punish their sins: They will return to Egypt. Amos 5:21 "I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies. Treasury of Scripture They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the LORD; but they shall not find him; he has withdrawn himself from them. go. Exodus 10:9,24-26 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 the LORD… Proverbs 15:8 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight. Proverbs 21:27 The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind? they. Proverbs 1:28 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me: Isaiah 1:11-15 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full 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… Isaiah 66:3 He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations. he. Song of Solomon 5:6 I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer. Luke 5:16 And he withdrew himself into the wilderness, and prayed. Jump to Previous Find Flock Flocks Herd Herds Search Seek View Withdrawn Won'tJump to Next Find Flock Flocks Herd Herds Search Seek View Withdrawn Won'tHosea 5 1. The judgments of God are denounced against the priests, people, and princes, 9. both of Israel and Judah, for their manifold sins. 15. An intimation is given of mercy on their repentance. (6) The vain effort to repent when it is too late. The spirit with which sacrifices of flocks and herds were offered is of more consequence than the multitude of such oblations (Micah 3:4; Isaiah 1:11; Psalm 40:6). Ghastly and revolting results follow the substitution of ritual of any kind for the weightier matter of the law.Verse 6. - They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the Lord. In this way they attempt to break, if not pro-vent, their fall. With numerous and costly sacrifices they endeavor to propitiate Jehovah. With sheep and goats out of their flocks, and with bullocks and heifers out of their herd, they try to make reparation for the past or to secure present and future favor. But in vain. Israel might go to Bethel and Judah to Jerusalem; but to no purpose. They shall not find him; he hath withdrawn himself. Their repentance came too late; or when it did come it wanted sincerity; or it was a wrong motive which prompted it - fear of approaching calamity and not love to their Creator; or their sins ran parallel with their sacrifice. Forgetting that obedience is better than sacrifice, they cherished a disobedient spirit or continued in their course of disobedience notwithstanding their outward sacrificial service. For one cause or other they fail in their efforts to find him; for, instead of being a present help in time of trouble, he has withdrawn beyond their reach; he has removed the Shechinah-glory of his presence from among them; or he has loosed himself from all those ties that once bound him in mercy to them, just as a husband frees himself from all responsibilities and disarms all liabilities on behalf of a faithless partner whom he has been forced to divorce. And such is the specific reason assigned in the next verse. Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew They goיֵֽלְכ֛וּ (yê·lə·ḵū) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural Strong's 1980: To go, come, walk with their flocks בְּצֹאנָ֣ם (bə·ṣō·nām) Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine plural Strong's 6629: Small cattle, sheep and goats, flock and herds וּבִבְקָרָ֗ם (ū·ḇiḇ·qā·rām) Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural Strong's 1241: Beef cattle, ox, a herd to seek לְבַקֵּ֥שׁ (lə·ḇaq·qêš) Preposition-l | Verb - Piel - Infinitive construct Strong's 1245: To search out, to strive after the LORD, יְהוָ֖ה (Yah·weh) Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel but they do not וְלֹ֣א (wə·lō) Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle Strong's 3808: Not, no find Him; יִמְצָ֑אוּ (yim·ṣā·’ū) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural Strong's 4672: To come forth to, appear, exist, to attain, find, acquire, to occur, meet, be present He has withdrawn Himself חָלַ֖ץ (ḥā·laṣ) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 2502: To pull off, to strip, to depart, to deliver, equip, present, strengthen from them. מֵהֶֽם׃ (mê·hem) Preposition-m | Pronoun - third person masculine plural Strong's 1992: They Links Hosea 5:6 NIVHosea 5:6 NLT Hosea 5:6 ESV Hosea 5:6 NASB Hosea 5:6 KJV Hosea 5:6 BibleApps.com Hosea 5:6 Biblia Paralela Hosea 5:6 Chinese Bible Hosea 5:6 French Bible Hosea 5:6 Catholic Bible OT Prophets: Hosea 5:6 They will go with their flocks (Ho Hs Hos.) |