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Hosea 5:15
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I will depart and return to my placeuntil they recognize their guilt and seek my face;they will search for me in their distress.
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."
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.
I will return again to my place, until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face, and in their distress earnestly seek me.
I will go away and return to My place Until they acknowledge their guilt and seek My face; In their distress they will search for Me.
Then I will go back to my place until they suffer for their guilt and turn back to me. In their trouble they will look for me."
I will go away and return to My place [on high] Until they acknowledge their offense and bear their guilt and seek My face; In their distress they will earnestly seek Me, saying,
I will go, and returne to my place, til they acknowledge their fault, and seeke me: in their affliction they will seeke me diligently.
I will go away and return to My place Until they acknowledge their guilt and seek My face; In their affliction they will earnestly seek Me.
I will go away and return to My placeUntil they acknowledge their guilt and seek My face;In their affliction they will seek Me earnestly.
Then I will return to My place until they admit their guilt and seek My face; in their affliction they will earnestly seek Me."
Then I'll return to my temple until they confess their guilt and worship me, until they are desperate and beg for my help.
I will go and return to my place, till they admit their guilt and search for me, seeking me eagerly in their distress."
I will go away, I will return to my place, till they acknowledge their trespass, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.
I will return and go to my place, till they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face; in their affliction they will seek me early.
"I will abandon my people until they have suffered enough for their sins and come looking for me. Perhaps in their suffering they will try to find me."
I will return again to my place until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face; in their distress they will search me.
I will go; I will return to My place until they confess their guilt and seek My face. In their affliction they will seek Me diligently.
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.
I will go back to my place till they are made waste; in their trouble they will go after me early and will make search for me.
I will go and return to My place, till they acknowledge their guilt, and seek My face; in their trouble they will seek Me earnestly:
I will goe and returne to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seeke my face: in their affliction they will seeke me early.
I wyll go and returne to my place, tyll they knowledge that they haue sinned and seeke me. In their aduersitie they shall early seeke me.
I will go and return to my place, until they are brought to nought, and then shall they seek my face.
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.
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."
Y my silf schal take, and go, and take awei, and noon is that schal delyuere. I schal go, and turne ayen to my place, til ye failen, and seken my face.
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.
I will go [and] return to my place, till they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.
Then I will return again to my lair until they have suffered their punishment. Then they will seek me; in their distress they will earnestly seek me.
I will return again to My place Till they acknowledge their offense. Then they will seek My face; In their affliction they will earnestly seek Me."
Then I will return to my place until they admit their guilt and turn to me. For as soon as trouble comes, they will earnestly search for me."
I will go away and return to My place until they know they are guilty and look for Me. In their suffering they will try to find Me."
I will return again to my place until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face. In their distress they will beg my favor:
I will depart, will return unto my place! till what time they acknowledge their guilt, and seek my face, - In their trouble, will they make for me diligent search.
I will go and return to my place: until you are consumed, and seek my face.
I will return again to my place, until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face, and in their distress they seek me, saying,
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!'
I wil go, and returne to my place, till they waxe faynt, and seke me.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
return: Hosea 5:6, Exodus 25:21, Exodus 25:22, 1 Kings 8:10-13, Psalms 132:14, Isaiah 26:21, Ezekiel 8:6, Ezekiel 10:4, Ezekiel 11:23, Micah 1:3
till: Hosea 14:1-3, Leviticus 26:40-42, Deuteronomy 4:29-31, Deuteronomy 30:1-3, 1 Kings 8:47, 1 Kings 8:48, 2 Chronicles 6:36, 2 Chronicles 6:37, 2 Chronicles 7:14, Nehemiah 1:8, Nehemiah 1:9, Job 33:27, Isaiah 64:5-9, Jeremiah 3:13, Jeremiah 29:12-14, Jeremiah 31:18-20, Ezekiel 6:9, Ezekiel 20:43, Ezekiel 36:31, Daniel 9:4-12
acknowledge their offence: Heb. be guilty
in their: Judges 4:3, Judges 6:6, Judges 6:7, Judges 10:10-16, 2 Chronicles 33:12, 2 Chronicles 33:13, Job 27:8-10, Psalms 50:15, Psalms 78:34, Psalms 83:16, Proverbs 1:27, Proverbs 1:28, Proverbs 8:17, Isaiah 26:9, Isaiah 26:16, Jeremiah 2:27, Zephaniah 2:1-3, Luke 13:25
Reciprocal: Genesis 42:21 - they said Leviticus 4:13 - and are guilty Leviticus 26:39 - shall pine Numbers 12:9 - General Judges 20:23 - wept Judges 21:4 - rose early 2 Samuel 19:20 - I am come 2 Kings 19:3 - This day 2 Chronicles 6:26 - thou dost 2 Chronicles 12:6 - humbled 2 Chronicles 28:22 - in the Psalms 27:8 - Seek Psalms 50:2 - Out Psalms 63:1 - early Psalms 89:46 - wilt Psalms 107:6 - Then Psalms 119:67 - but now Song of Solomon 5:6 - but my Isaiah 9:13 - the people Isaiah 18:4 - I will Isaiah 19:22 - he shall smite Isaiah 30:18 - wait Isaiah 37:3 - General Isaiah 64:7 - hast hid Jeremiah 2:24 - in her month Jeremiah 22:23 - how Jeremiah 29:13 - ye shall Jeremiah 36:7 - It may Hosea 2:7 - I will Hosea 3:5 - seek Hosea 6:1 - and let Hosea 7:7 - there Hosea 8:2 - General Amos 4:6 - yet Jonah 2:1 - prayed John 4:46 - whose
Gill's Notes on the Bible
I will go [and] return to my place,.... Leave the countries of Israel and of Judah, where he had used to grant his gracious and spiritual presence unto his people, and watched over them, and cared for them, and bestowed many favours on them, and go up to heaven, the place of his more glorious presence, as the Targum, Jarchi, and Kimchi, interpret it; and there, as it were, shut himself up, particularly with respect to these people, as if he had no more thought of them, or concern for them: this is to be understood in a sense becoming and agreeable to the omnipresence of God:
till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face; till the Israelites acknowledge their idolatry, and the Jews their disbelief and rejection of the Messiah, and all other sins; till they ingenuously confess themselves to be guilty, or know and acknowledge they have sinned, as the Targum; and then humbly seek the face and favour of God, the remission of their sins from him, and acceptance with him:
in their affliction they will seek me early; in the morning, betimes, early, and earnestly; which affliction may be understood both of the Assyrian and Babylonish captivity; or rather of their present affliction toward the close of it, when they shall be sensible of their sins, and confess them, and look to him whom they have pierced, and mourn, and seek for pardon, righteousness, and salvation, from him; and so all Israel shall be saved, of whose conversion this is a prophecy.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
I will go and return to My place - As the wild beast, when he has taken his prey, returns to his covert, so God, when He had fulfilled His will, would, for the time, withdraw all tokens of his presence. God, who is wholly everywhere, is said to dwell “there,” relatively to us, where he manifests Himself, as of old, in the tabernacle, the temple, Zion, Jerusalem. He is said to “go and return,” when He withdraws all tokens of His presence, His help, care, and providence. This is worse than any affliction on God’s part , “a state like theirs who, in the lowest part of hell, are “delivered into chains of darkness,” shut out from His presence, and so from all hope of comfort; and this must needs be their condition, so long as He shall be absent from them; and so perpetually, except there be a way for obtaining again His favorable presence.”
Till they acknowledge their offence - o: “He who “hath no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live,” withdraws Himself from them, not to cast them off altogether, but that they might know and acknowledge their folly and wickedness, and, seeing there is no comfort out of Him, prefer His presence to those vain things.” which they had preferred to Him To say, that God would hide His Face from them, “until they should acknowledge their offence,” holds out in itself a gleam of hope, that hereafter they would turn to Him, and would find Him.
And seek My Face - The first step in repentance is confession of sin; the second, turning to God. For to own sin without turning to God is the despair of Judas.
In their affliction they shall seek Me early - God does not only leave them hopes, that He would show forth his presence, when they sought him, but He promises that they shah seek Him, i. e. He would give them His grace whereby alone they could seek Him, and that grace should be effectual. Of itself affliction drives to despair and more obdurate rebellion and final impenitence. Through the grace of God, “evil brings forth good; fear, love; chastisement, repentance.” “They shall seek Me early,” originally, “in the morning,” i. e., with all diligence and earnestness, as a man riseth early to do what he is very much set upon. So these shall “shake off the sleep of sin and the torpor of listlessness, when the light of repentance shall shine upon them.”
This was fulfilled in the two tribes, toward the end of the seventy years, when many doubtless, together with Daniel, “set their face unto the Lord God to seek by prayer and supplication with fasting and sackcloth and ashes” Daniel 9:2-3; and again in, those “who waited for redemption in Jerusalem” Luke 2:25, Luke 2:38, when our Lord came; and it will be fulfillment in all at the end of the world. “The first flash of thought on the power and goodness of the true Deliverer, is like the morning streaks of a new day. At the sight of that light, Israel shall arise early to seek his God; he shall rise quickly like the Prodigal, out of his wanderings and his indigence.”
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Hosea 5:15. I will go and return to my place — I will abandon them till they acknowledge their offenses. This had the wished-for effect, as we shall see in the following chapter; for they repented and turned to God, and he had mercy upon them. These two verses are considered as instances of the true sublime.
