“I pray to You, O יהוה, remember how I have walked before You in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done what was good in Your eyes.” And Ḥizqiyahu wept bitterly.
Amos 5:4 - The Scriptures 2009 For thus said יהוה to the house of Yisra’ĕl, “Seek Me and live, Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For thus says the Lord to the house of Israel: Seek Me [inquire for and of Me and require Me as you require food] and you shall live! [II Chron. 15:2; Jer. 29:13.] American Standard Version (1901) For thus saith Jehovah unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live; Common English Bible The LORD proclaims to the house of Israel: Seek me and live. Catholic Public Domain Version For thus says the Lord to the house of Israel: Seek me and you will live. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For thus saith the Lord to the house of Israel: Seek ye me, and you shall live. |
“I pray to You, O יהוה, remember how I have walked before You in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done what was good in Your eyes.” And Ḥizqiyahu wept bitterly.
“As for you, my son Shelomoh, know the Elohim of your father, and serve Him with a perfect heart and with a pleasing life, for יהוה searches all hearts and understands all the intent of the thoughts. If you do seek Him, He is found by you; but if you forsake Him, He rejects you forever.
And he went out to face Asa, and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Yehuḏah and Binyamin. יהוה is with you while you are with Him. And if you seek Him, He is found by you, but if you forsake Him, He forsakes you.
And Yehoshaphat was afraid, and set his face to seek יהוה, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Yehuḏah.
And Yehuḏah gathered to inquire of יהוה, even from all the cities of Yehuḏah they came to seek יהוה.
And in the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, he began to seek the Elohim of his father Dawiḏ. And in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Yehuḏah and Yerushalayim from the high places, and the Ashĕrim, and the carved images, and the moulded images.
יהוה looked down from the heavens on the sons of mankind, To see if there is a wise one, seeking יהוה.
The meek ones do eat and are satisfied; Let those who seek Him praise יהוה. Let your heart live forever!
To my heart You have said, “Seek My face.” Your face, יהוה, I seek.
The humble shall see, they rejoice, You who seek Elohim, and your hearts live.
Woe to those who go down to Mitsrayim for help, and rely on horses, who trust in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen because they are very strong, but who do not look to the Set-apart One of Yisra’ĕl, nor seek יהוה!
“Incline your ear, and come to Me. Hear, so that your being lives. And let Me make an everlasting covenant with you, the trustworthy loving-commitments of Dawiḏ.
But Yirmeyahu said, “They shall not hand you over. Please, obey the voice of יהוה which I speak to you, and let it be well with you, and your life be spared.
if he walks in My laws, and he has guarded My right-rulings in truth – he is righteous, he shall certainly live!” declares the Master יהוה.
Sow for yourselves righteousness, reap according to loving-commitment, break up your tillable ground, it is time to seek יהוה, till He comes and rainsa righteousness on you.
“Seek יהוה and live, lest He break out like fire upon the house of Yosĕph, and shall consume it, with no one to quench it in Bĕyth Ěl.
Seek יהוה, all you meek ones of the earth, who have done His right-ruling. Seek righteousness, seek meekness, if so be that you are hidden in the day of wrath of יהוה.
“For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it shall be opened.
he said to them, “Set your heart on all the words with which I warn you today, so that you command your children to guard to do all the Words of this Torah.
For it is not a worthless Word for you, because it is your life, and by this Word you prolong your days on the soil which you pass over the Yardĕn to possess.
But from there you shall seek יהוה your Elohim, and shall find, when you search for Him with all your heart and with all your being.