Psalm 78:34 {77:34}
Good News Translation
Whenever he killed some of them, the rest would turn to him; they would repent and pray earnestly to him.

New Revised Standard Version
When he killed them, they sought for him; they repented and sought God earnestly.

Contemporary English Version
After he killed some of them, the others turned to him with all their hearts.

New American Bible
When he slew them, they began to seek him; they again looked for God.

Douay-Rheims Bible
When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned, and came to him early in the morning.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned, and came to him early in the morning.

Numbers 21:7 Upon which they came to Moses, and said; We have sinned, because we have spoken against the Lord and thee: pray that he may take away these serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people.

Judges 3:8,9,12-15 And the Lord being angry with Israel, delivered them into the hands of Chusan Rasathaim, king of Mesopotamia, and they served him eight years. . . .

Judges 4:3 And the children of Israel cried to the Lord: for he had nine hundred chariots set with scythes and for twenty years had grievously oppressed them.

Judges 10:7-10 And the Lord being angry with them, delivered them into the hands of the Philistines, and of the children of Ammon. . . .

Isaiah 26:6 The foot shall tread it down, the feet of the poor, the steps of the needy.

Jeremiah 22:23 Thou that sittest in Libanus, and makest thy nest in the cedars, how hast thou mourned when sorrows came upon thee, as the pains of a woman in labour?

Hosea 5:15 I will go and return to my place: until you are consumed, and seek my face.

Hosea 7:14 And they have not cried to me with their heart, but they howled in their beds: they have thought upon wheat and wine, they are departed from me.

Context
I Will Open My Mouth in Parables
33And their days were consumed in vanity, and their years in haste. 34When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned, and came to him early in the morning.35And they remembered that God was their helper: and the most high God their redeemer.…
Cross References
Numbers 21:7
Upon which they came to Moses, and said; We have sinned, because we have spoken against the Lord and thee: pray that he may take away these serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people.

Judges 3:15
And afterwards they cried to the Lord, who raised them up a saviour, called Aod, the son of Cera, the son of Jemini, who used the left hand as well as the right. And the children of Israel sent presents to Eglon, king of Moab, by him.

Psalm 63:1
A psalm of David while he was in the desert of Edom. [2] O God, my God, to thee do I watch at break of day. For thee my soul hath thirsted; for thee my flesh, O how many ways!

Isaiah 26:9
My soul hath desired thee in the night: yea, and with my spirit within me in the morning early I will watch to thee. When thou shalt do thy judgments on the earth, the inhabitants of the world shall learn justice.

Isaiah 45:19
I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I have not said to the seed of Jacob: Seek me in vain. I am the Lord that speak justice, that declare right things.

Hosea 5:15
I will go and return to my place: until you are consumed, and seek my face.

Hosea 6:4
What shall I do to thee, O Ephraim? what shall I do to thee, O Juda? your mercy is as a morning cloud, and as the dew that goeth away in the morning.

Hosea 8:2
They shall call upon me: O my God, we, Israel, know thee.

Psalm 78:33
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