Hosea 5:6
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.

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With their flocks and herds they shall go to seek the LORD, but they will not find him; he has withdrawn from them.

Contemporary English Version
You offer sheep and cattle as sacrifices to me, but I have turned away and refuse to be found.

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With their flocks and herds they will go to seek the LORD, but will not find him; he has withdrawn from them.

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With their flocks and with their herds, they shall go to seek the Lord, and shall not find him: he is withdrawn from them.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

With their flocks and with their herds, they shall go to seek the Lord, and shall not find him: he is withdrawn from them.

go.

Exodus 10:9,24-26 Moses said: We will go with our young and old, with our sons and daughters, with our sheep and herds: for it is the solemnity of the Lord our God. . . .

Proverbs 15:8 The victims of the wicked are abominable to the Lord: the vows of the just are acceptable.

Proverbs 21:27 The sacrifices of the wicked are abominable, because they are offered of wickedness.

Jeremiah 7:4 Trust not in lying words, saying: The temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, it is the temple of the Lord.

Micah 6:6,7 What shall I offer to the Lord that is worthy? wherewith shall I kneel before the high God? shall I offer holocausts unto him, and calves of a year old? . . .

they.

Proverbs 1:28 Because they have hated instruction, and received not the fear of the Lord,

Isaiah 1:11-15 To what purpose do you offer me the multitude of your victims, saith the Lord? I am full, I desire not holocausts of rams, and fat of fatlings, and blood of calves, and lambs, and buck goats. . . .

Isaiah 66:3 He that sacrificeth an ox, is as if he slew a man: he that killeth a sheep in sacrifice, as if he should brain a dog: he that offereth an oblation, as if he should offer swine's blood; he that remembereth incense, as if he should bless an idol. All these things have they chosen in their ways, and their soul is delighted in their abominations.

Jeremiah 11:11 Wherefore thus saith the Lord: Behold I will bring in evils upon them, which they shall not be able to escape: and they shall cry to me, and I will not hearken to them.

Lamentations 3:44 Samech. Thou hast set a cloud before thee, that our prayer may not pass through.

Ezekiel 8:18 Therefore I also will deal with them in my wrath: my eye shall not spare them, neither will I shew mercy: and when they shall cry to my ears with a loud voice, I will not hear them.

Amos 5:21-23 I hate, and have rejected your festivities: and I will not receive the odour of your assemblies. . . .

Micah 3:4 Who have eaten the flesh of my people, and have flayed their skin off them: and have broken, and chopped their bones as for the kettle, and as flesh in the midst of the pot.

John 7:34 You shall seek me and shall not find me: and where I am, thither you cannot come.

he.

Songs 5:6 I opened the bolt of my door to my beloved: but he had turned aside, and was gone. My soul melted when he spoke: I sought him, and found him not: I called, and he did not answer me.

Luke 5:16 And he retired into the desert; and prayed.

Context
God's Judgment on Israel and Judah
5And the pride of Israel shall answer in his face: and Israel, and Ephraim shall fall in their iniquity, Juda also shall fall with them. 6With their flocks and with their herds, they shall go to seek the Lord, and shall not find him: he is withdrawn from them.7They have transgressed against the Lord: for they have begotten children that are strangers: now shall a month devour them with their portions.…
Cross References
Proverbs 1:28
Because they have hated instruction, and received not the fear of the Lord,

Isaiah 1:15
And when you stretch forth your hands, I will turn away my eyes from you: and when you multiply prayer, I will not hear: for your hands are full of blood.

Jeremiah 11:14
Therefore do not thou pray for this people, and do not take up praise and prayer for them: for I will not hear them in the time of their cry to me, in the time of their affliction.

Jeremiah 14:12
When they fast I will not hear their prayers: and if they offer holocausts and victims, I will not receive them: for I will consume them by the sword, and by famine, and by the pestilence.

Ezekiel 8:6
And he said to me: Son of man, dost thou see, thinkest thou, what these are doing, the great abominations that the house of Israel committeth here, that I should depart far off from my sanctuary? and turn thee yet again and thou shalt see greater abominations.

Hosea 8:13
They shall offer victims, they shall sacrifice flesh, and shall eat it, and the Lord will not receive them: now will he remember their iniquity, and will visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.

Amos 5:21
I hate, and have rejected your festivities: and I will not receive the odour of your assemblies.

Micah 6:6
What shall I offer to the Lord that is worthy? wherewith shall I kneel before the high God? shall I offer holocausts unto him, and calves of a year old?

Micah 6:7
May the Lord be appeased with thousands of rams, or with many thousands of fat he goats? shall I give my firstborn for my wickedness, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

Malachi 1:10
Who is there among you, that will shut the doors, and will kindle the fire on my altar gratis? I have no pleasure in you, saith the Lord of hosts: and I will not receive a gift of your hand.

Hosea 5:5
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