Hosea 5:15

God will withdraw to His place until His people, broken by affliction, finally admit their guilt and earnestly seek His face.

Cross-references · 40

• Isa 26:16LORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them.
• Jer 29:12–14Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.
• Ps 78:34When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and enquired early after God.
• Deut 4:29–31But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.
• Ps 50:15And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
• Lev 26:40–42If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;
• Jer 3:13Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the LORD.
• Luke 13:25When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are:
• Hos 3:5Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God, and David their king; and shall fear the LORD and his goodness in the latter days.
• Ezek 6:9And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols: and they shall lothe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.
• Job 27:8–10For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?
• Ezek 36:31Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.
• Isa 26:9With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
• Jer 2:27Saying to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned their back unto me, and not their face: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.
• 2 Chr 6:36–37If they sin against thee, (for there is no man which sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them over before their enemies, and they carry them away captives unto a land far off or near;
• Ezek 8:6He said furthermore unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel committeth here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? but turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations.
• Isa 64:5–9Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved.
• 1 Kgs 8:10–13And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house of the LORD,
• Prov 1:27–28When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
• Isa 26:21For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.
• Judg 10:10–16And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, saying, We have sinned against thee, both because we have forsaken our God, and also served Baalim.
• Ps 132:14This is my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have desired it.
• Ps 83:16Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O LORD.
• Ezek 10:4Then the glory of the LORD went up from the cherub, and stood over the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of the LORD’s glory.
• Zeph 2:1–3Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired;
• Judg 6:6–7And Israel was greatly impoverished because of the Midianites; and the children of Israel cried unto the LORD.
• Mic 1:3For, behold, the LORD cometh forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.
• Hos 5:6They 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.
• 2 Chr 7:14If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
• Dan 9:4–12And I prayed unto the LORD my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments;
• Deut 30:1–3And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee,
• Ezek 11:23And the glory of the LORD went up from the midst of the city, and stood upon the mountain which is on the east side of the city.
• Neh 1:8–9Remember, I beseech thee, the word that thou commandedst thy servant Moses, saying, If ye transgress, I will scatter you abroad among the nations:
• 2 Chr 33:12–13And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,
• Jer 31:18–20I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the LORD my God.
• Prov 8:17I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.
• Hos 14:1–3O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.
• Job 33:27He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;
• Ezek 20:43And there shall ye remember your ways, and all your doings, wherein ye have been defiled; and ye shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that ye have committed.
• 1 Kgs 8:47–48Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness;

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