Isaiah 55:6

World English Bible (2000)

Seek Yahweh while he may be found; call you on him while he is near:

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  • Jer 29:12-14 : 12 You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you. 13 You shall seek me, and find me, when you shall search for me with all your heart. 14 I will be found by you, says Yahweh, and I will turn again your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places where I have driven you, says Yahweh; and I will bring you again to the place from where I caused you to be carried away captive.
  • Isa 45:19 : 19 I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness. I didn't say to the seed of Jacob, 'Seek me in vain.' I, Yahweh, speak righteousness. I declare things that are right.
  • Ps 32:6 : 6 For this, let everyone who is godly pray to you in a time when you may be found. Surely when the great waters overflow, they shall not reach to him.
  • Amos 5:6 : 6 Seek Yahweh, and you will live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, and there be no one to quench it in Bethel.
  • Ps 14:2 : 2 Yahweh looked down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who did understand, who did seek after God.
  • Heb 2:3 : 3 how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation--which at the first having been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard;
  • 2 Cor 6:1-2 : 1 Working together, we entreat also that you not receive the grace of God in vain, 2 for he says, "At an acceptable time I listened to you, in a day of salvation I helped you." Behold, now is the acceptable time. Behold, now is the day of salvation.
  • Job 8:5 : 5 If you want to seek God diligently, make your supplication to the Almighty.
  • Ps 145:18 : 18 Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.
  • Isa 65:24 : 24 It shall happen that, before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
  • 1 Chr 28:9 : 9 You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.
  • Deut 4:7 : 7 For what great nation is there, that has a god so near to them, as Yahweh our God is whenever we call on him?
  • Ps 27:8 : 8 When you said, "Seek my face," my heart said to you, "I will seek your face, Yahweh."
  • Ps 148:14 : 14 He has lifted up the horn of his people, the praise of all his saints; even of the children of Israel, a people near to him. Praise Yah!
  • Isa 46:13 : 13 I bring near my righteousness, it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not wait; and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory.
  • Matt 7:7-8 : 7 "Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you. 8 For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.
  • John 12:35-36 : 35 Jesus therefore said to them, "Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn't overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn't know where he is going. 36 While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become children of light." Jesus said these things, and he departed and hid himself from them.
  • Isa 12:6 : 6 Cry aloud and shout, you inhabitant of Zion; for the Holy One of Israel is great in the midst of you!"
  • Ps 75:1 : 1 We give thanks to you, God. We give thanks, for your Name is near. Men tell about your wondrous works.
  • Ps 95:7 : 7 for he is our God. We are the people of his pasture, and the sheep in his care. Today, oh that you would hear his voice!
  • 2 Chr 19:3 : 3 Nevertheless there are good things found in you, in that you have put away the Asheroth out of the land, and have set your heart to seek God."
  • Isa 49:8 : 8 Thus says Yahweh, "In an acceptable time have I answered you, and in a day of salvation have I helped you; and I will preserve you, and give you for a covenant of the people, to raise up the land, to make them inherit the desolate heritage:
  • Ezek 8:6 : 6 He said to me, Son of man, do you see what they do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel do commit here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? But you shall again see yet other great abominations.
  • Eph 3:13 : 13 Therefore I ask that you may not lose heart at my troubles for you, which are your glory.
  • Luke 13:25 : 25 When once the master of the house has risen up, and has shut the door, and you begin to stand outside, and to knock at the door, saying, 'Lord, Lord, open to us!' then he will answer and tell you, 'I don't know you or where you come from.'
  • John 7:33-34 : 33 Then Jesus said, "I will be with you a little while longer, then I go to him who sent me. 34 You will seek me, and won't find me; and where I am, you can't come."
  • John 8:21 : 21 Jesus said therefore again to them, "I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sins. Where I go, you can't come."
  • Heb 3:13 : 13 but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called "today;" lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
  • Matt 5:25 : 25 Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are with him in the way; lest perhaps the prosecutor deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison.

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    12You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.

    13You shall seek me, and find me, when you shall search for me with all your heart.

    14I will be found by you, says Yahweh, and I will turn again your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places where I have driven you, says Yahweh; and I will bring you again to the place from where I caused you to be carried away captive.

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    7let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

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    4For thus says Yahweh to the house of Israel: "Seek me, and you will live;

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    5Behold, you shall call a nation that you don't know; and a nation that didn't know you shall run to you, because of Yahweh your God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he has glorified you."

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    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.

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    10Glory in his holy name. Let the heart of those who seek Yahweh rejoice.

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    6Seek Yahweh, and you will live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, and there be no one to quench it in Bethel.

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    3Glory in his holy name. Let the heart of those who seek Yahweh rejoice.

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    4But when in their distress they turned to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and sought him, he was found by them.

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

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    2before the appointed time when the day passes as the chaff, before the fierce anger of Yahweh comes on you, before the day of Yahweh's anger comes on you.

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    2and he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, "Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin! 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.

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    6They will go with their flocks and with their herds to seek Yahweh; but they won't find him. He has withdrawn himself from them.

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    5If you want to seek God diligently, make your supplication to the Almighty.

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    2Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways: as a nation that did righteousness, and didn't forsake the ordinance of their God, they ask of me righteous judgments; they delight to draw near to God.

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    8When you said, "Seek my face," my heart said to you, "I will seek your face, Yahweh."

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    3Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great things, and difficult, which you don't know.

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    6For this, let everyone who is godly pray to you in a time when you may be found. Surely when the great waters overflow, they shall not reach to him.

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    5For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive; abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.

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    15Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me."

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    6Return to him from whom you have deeply revolted, children of Israel.

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    16As for me, I will call on God. Yahweh will save me.

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