Hosea 5:6

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

With their flocks and herds they shall go to seek the Lord, but they will not find him; he has withdrawn from them.

Cross References

Exodus 10:9

Moses said, “We will go with our young and our old; we will go with our sons and daughters and with our flocks and herds, because we have the Lord’s festival to celebrate.”

Proverbs 1:28

Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer; they will seek me diligently but will not find me.

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 an abomination; how much more when brought with evil intent.

Song of Solomon 5:6

I opened to my beloved, but my beloved had turned away and was gone. My soul failed me when he spoke. I sought him but did not find him; I called him, but he gave no answer.

Isaiah 66:3

Whoever slaughters an ox is like one who kills a human, whoever sacrifices a lamb like one who breaks a dog’s neck, whoever presents a grain offering like one who offers pig’s blood, whoever makes a memorial offering of frankincense like one who blesses an idol. Just as these have chosen their own ways and in their abominations they take delight,

Jeremiah 11:11

Therefore, thus says the Lord, assuredly I am going to bring disaster upon them that they cannot escape; though they cry out to me, I will not listen to them.

Jeremiah 11:14

As for you, do not pray for this people or lift up a cry or prayer on their behalf, for I will not listen when they call to me in the time of their trouble.

Jeremiah 14:12

Although they fast, I do not hear their cry, and although they offer burnt offering and grain offering, I do not accept them, but by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence I consume them.

Jeremiah 7:4

Do not trust in these deceptive words: “This is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord.”

Lamentations 3:44

you have wrapped yourself with a cloud so that no prayer can pass through.

Ezekiel 8:18

Therefore I will act in wrath; my eye will not spare, nor will I have pity, and though they cry in my hearing with a loud voice, I will not listen to them.”

Ezekiel 8:6

He said to me, “Mortal, do you see what they are doing, the great abominations that the house of Israel are committing here, to drive me far from my sanctuary? Yet you will see still greater abominations.”

Hosea 8:13

Though they offer choice sacrifices, though they eat flesh, the Lord does not accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity and punish their sins; they shall return to Egypt.

Amos 8:12

They shall wander from sea to sea and from north to east; they shall run to and fro, seeking the word of the Lord, but they shall not find it.

Micah 3:4

Then they will cry to the Lord, but he will not answer them; he will hide his face from them at that time because they have acted wickedly.

Malachi 1:10

Oh, that someone among you would shut the temple doors, so that you would not kindle fire on my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you, says the Lord of hosts, and I will not accept an offering from your hands.

Luke 5:16

Meanwhile, he would slip away to deserted places and pray.

John 7:34

You will search for me, but you will not find me, and where I am, you cannot come.”