Hosea 5:6

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

They go with their flocks and herds to seek the  Lord but do not find him; he has withdrawn from them.

Cross References

John 7:34

You will look for me, but you will not find me; and where I am, you cannot come.’

Proverbs 1:28

Then they will call me, but I won’t answer; they will search for me, but won’t find me.

Ezekiel 8:6

He said to me, ‘Son of man, do you see what they are doing here #– #more detestable acts that the house of Israel is committing   #– #so that I must depart from my sanctuary? You will see even more detestable acts.’

Lamentations 3:44

You have covered yourself with a cloud so that no prayer can get through.

Jeremiah 7:4

Do not trust deceitful words, chanting, ‘This is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord.’

Proverbs 15:8

The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable to the  Lord, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

Luke 5:16

Yet he often withdrew to deserted places and prayed.

Jeremiah 11:11

‘Therefore, this is what the Lord says: I am about to bring on them disaster that they cannot escape.  They will cry out to me, but I will not hear them.

Isaiah 66:3

One person slaughters an ox, another kills a person; one person sacrifices a lamb, another breaks a dog’s neck; one person offers a grain offering, another offers pig’s blood; one person offers incense, another praises an idol – all these have chosen their ways and delight in their abhorrent practices.

Song of Solomon 5:6

I opened to my love, but my love had turned and gone away. My heart sank  because he had left. I sought him, but did not find him. I called him, but he did not answer.

Proverbs 21:27

The sacrifice of a wicked person is detestable  – how much more so when he brings it with ulterior motives!

Exodus 10:9

Moses replied, ‘We will go with our young and with our old; we will go with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds because we must hold the Lord’s festival.’

Micah 3:4

Then they will cry out  to the  Lord, but he will not answer them. He will hide his face from them at that time because of the crimes they have committed.

Ezekiel 8:18

Therefore I will respond with wrath.  I will not show pity or spare them.  Though they call loudly in my hearing,  I will not listen to them.’

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 at the time of their disaster.

Jeremiah 14:12

If they fast, I will not hear their cry of despair. If they offer burnt offering and grain offering, I will not accept them. Rather, I will finish them off by sword, famine, and plague.’

Hosea 8:13

Though they offer sacrificial gifts  , and eat the flesh, the Lord does not accept them. Now he will remember their guilt and punish their sins; they will return to Egypt.

Malachi 1:10

‘I wish one of you would shut the temple doors,  so that you would no longer kindle a useless fire on my altar!  I am not pleased with you,’ says the Lord of Armies, ‘and I will accept  no offering from your hands.

Amos 8:12

People will stagger from sea to sea and roam from north to east seeking the word of the  Lord, but they will not find it.