Hosea 5:6 Cross References - MLV

⁶ They will go with their flocks and with their herds to seek Jehovah, but they will not find him. He has withdrawn himself from them.

⁹ And Moses said, We will go with our young and with our old, with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go, because we must hold a feast to Jehovah.

²⁴ And Pharaoh called to Moses and said, Go, serve Jehovah, only let your* flocks and your* herds stay. Let your* little ones also go with you*. ²⁵ And Moses said, You must also give into our hand sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice to Jehovah our God. ²⁶ Our cattle will also go with us, there will not a hoof be left behind, because we must take of it to serve Jehovah our God and we do not know with what we must serve Jehovah, until we come there.

²⁸ Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me,

⁸ The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to Jehovah, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

²⁷ The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination. Much more when he brings it with a wicked mind!

⁶ I opened to my beloved, but my beloved had withdrawn himself and had gone. My soul had failed me when he spoke. I sought him, but I could not find him. I called him, but he gave me no answer.

¹¹ What to me is the multitude of your* sacrifices? says Jehovah. I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed beasts. And I do not delight in the blood of bullocks or of lambs or of male-goats. ¹² When you* come to appear before me, who has required this at your* hand–to trample my courts?
¹³ Bring no more vain oblations. Incense is an abomination to me. New moon and Sabbath, the calling of assemblies–I cannot bear wickedness and the solemn assembly. ¹⁴ Your* new moons and your* appointed feasts my soul hates. They are a trouble to me. I am weary of bearing them.
¹⁵ And when you* spread forth your* hands, I will hide my eyes from you*. Yes, when you* make many prayers, I will not hear; your* hands are full of blood.

³ He who slaughters an ox is as he who kills a man. He who sacrifices a lamb, as he who breaks a dog's neck. He who offers an oblation, as swine's blood. He who burns frankincense, as he who graces an idol.
Yes, they have chosen their own ways and their soul delights in their abominations.

⁴ Do not trust in lying words, saying, The temple of Jehovah, the temple of Jehovah, the temple of Jehovah, are these.

¹¹ Therefore Jehovah says thus, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they will not be able to escape. And they will cry to me, but I will not listen to them.

⁴⁴ You have covered yourself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.

⁶ And he said to me, Son of man, see what they do, even the great abominations that the house of Israel commit here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? But you will again see yet other great abominations.

¹⁸ Therefore I will also deal in wrath. My eye will not spare, nor will I have pity. And though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, yet I will not hear them.

²¹ I hate, I despise your* feasts and I will take no delight in your* solemn assemblies. ²² Yes, though you* offer me your* burnt offerings and meal offerings, I will not accept them, nor will I regard the peace offerings of your* fat beasts. ²³ You take away from me the noise of your songs, for I will not hear the melody of your viols.

⁴ Then they will cry to Jehovah, but he will not answer them. Yes, he will hide his face from them at that time, just-as they have worked evil in their practices.

⁶ With what shall I come before Jehovah and bow myself before the high God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old? ⁷ Will Jehovah be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousand rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

¹⁶ But he was departing by himself in the wilderness and prayed.

³⁴ You will be seeking me and will not be finding me and where I am, you are not able to come.