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.’
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- Christian Standard Bible Anglicised They go with their flocks and herds to seek the Lord but do not find him; he has withdrawn from them. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the LORD; but they shall not find him; he hath withdrawn himself from them. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the Lord [inquiring for and requiring Him], but they will not find Him; He has withdrawn Himself from them. American Standard Version (1901) They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek Jehovah; but they shall not find him: he hath withdrawn himself from them. Common English Bible With their sheep and their cattle they will go to seek the LORD, but they will not find him; he has withdrawn from them. Catholic Public Domain Version With their flocks and their herds, they will go to seek the Lord, and they will not find him. He has taken himself away from them. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version With their flocks, and with their herds, they shall go to seek the Lord, and shall not find him: he is withdrawn from them. |
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.’
Then they will call me, but I won’t answer; they will search for me, but won’t find me.
The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
The sacrifice of a wicked person is detestable – how much more so when he brings it with ulterior motives!
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.
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.
‘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.
‘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.
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.’
Do not trust deceitful words, chanting, ‘This is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord.’
You have covered yourself with a cloud so that no prayer can get through.
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.’
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.’
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.
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.
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.
‘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.
You will look for me, but you will not find me; and where I am, you cannot come.’