Yet the people have not turned to him who struck them, neither have they sought Yahweh of Armies.
Parallel translations
- KJV For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they seek the LORD of hosts.
- BSB But the people did not return to Him who struck them; they did not seek the LORD of Hosts.
- NKJV For the people do not turn to Him who strikes them, Nor do they seek the Lord of hosts.
- NASB ¶Yet the people do not turn back to Him who struck them, Nor do they seek the Lord of armies.
- NLT For after all this punishment, the people will still not repent. They will not seek the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.
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Quick answer
Despite the blows of judgment, the people still refuse to turn back to God.
Overview
The suffering meant to drive them to repentance has not worked; they neither return to the Lord who struck them nor seek him. Their hardness is the deep cause of their ongoing trouble. The verse highlights that affliction is meant to lead to repentance, and resisting it prolongs the chastening.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 16
- Hos 7:10The pride of Israel testifies to his face; yet they haven’t returned to Yahweh their God, nor sought him, for all this.
- Jer 5:3O Yahweh, don’t your eyes look on truth? You have stricken them, but they were not grieved. You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock. They have refused to return.
- Isa 31:1Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, and rely on horses, and trust in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen because they are very strong, but they don’t look to the Holy One of Israel, and they don’t seek Yahweh!
- Isa 1:5Why should you be beaten more, that you revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
- Ezek 24:13In your filthiness is lewdness: because I have cleansed you and you weren’t cleansed, you shall not be cleansed from your filthiness any more, until I have caused my wrath toward you to rest.
- Deut 4:29But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God, and you shall find him, when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.
- Hos 3:4–5For the children of Israel shall live many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without sacred stone, and without ephod or idols.
- Jer 50:4–5“In those days, and in that time,” says Yahweh, “the children of Israel will come, they and the children of Judah together; they will go on their way weeping, and will seek Yahweh their God.
- Jer 31:18–20“I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf: turn me, and I shall be turned; for you are Yahweh my God.
- Job 36:13“But those who are godless in heart lay up anger. They don’t cry for help when he binds them.
- Hos 7:16They return, but not to the Most High. They are like a faulty bow. Their princes will fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue. This will be their derision in the land of Egypt.
- Jer 29:11For I know the thoughts that I think toward you,” says Yahweh, “thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.
- Hos 5:15I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly.”
- 2 Chr 28:22In the time of his distress, he trespassed yet more against Yahweh, this same king Ahaz.
- Isa 26:11Yahweh, your hand is lifted up, yet they don’t see; but they will see your zeal for the people, and be disappointed. Yes, fire will consume your adversaries.
- Isa 57:17I was angry because of the iniquity of his covetousness, and struck him; I hid myself and was angry; and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.
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