- You shall seek me and find me, when you search for me with all your heart.
- Yahweh is with you while you are with him; and if you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.
- Seek Yahweh and his strength.
Seek his face forever more. - God, you are my God.
I will earnestly seek you.
My soul thirsts for you.
My flesh longs for you,
in a dry and weary land, where there is no water. - Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.
- Also delight yourself in Yahweh,
and he will give you the desires of your heart. - Those who know your name will put their trust in you,
for you, Yahweh, have not forsaken those who seek you. - I sought Yahweh, and he answered me,
and delivered me from all my fears. - Seek Yahweh while he may be found.
Call on him while he is near. - I am inquired of by those who didn’t ask.
I am found by those who didn’t seek me.
I said, ‘See me, see me,’ to a nation that was not called by my name. - Seek Yahweh and his strength.
Seek his face forever more. - For Yahweh says to the house of Israel:
“Seek me, and you will live.” - Yahweh, you have searched me,
and you know me.
You know my sitting down and my rising up.
You perceive my thoughts from afar. - For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost.
- The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger,
but those who seek Yahweh shall not lack any good thing. - Blessed are those who keep his statutes,
who seek him with their whole heart. - Seek good, and not evil,
that you may live;
and so Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be with you,
as you say. - Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.
- Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing,
and obtains favor of Yahweh. - So you shall know wisdom to be to your soul.
If you have found it, then there will be a reward:
Your hope will not be cut off. - Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might.
- I will walk in liberty,
for I have sought your precepts. - My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.
When shall I come and appear before God? - I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.
- Seek Yahweh, all you humble of the land, who have kept his ordinances. Seek righteousness. Seek humility. It may be that you will be hidden in the day of Yahweh’s anger.
Be exalted, God, above the heavens!
Let your glory be above all the earth! I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go.
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