Isaiah 55:6 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI) “Seek the Lord while he may be found, call upon him while he is near; Flere versionerKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Seek, inquire for, and require the Lord while He may be found [claiming Him by necessity and by right]; call upon Him while He is near. American Standard Version (1901) Seek ye Jehovah while he may be found; call ye upon him while he is near: Common English Bible Seek the LORD when he can still be found; call him while he is yet near. Catholic Public Domain Version Seek the Lord, while he is able to be found. Call upon him, while he is near. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Seek ye the Lord while he may be found: call upon him while he is near. |
“And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a whole heart and with a willing mind; for the Lord searches all hearts, and understands every plan and thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off for ever.
Nevertheless some good is found in you, for you destroyed the Asherahs out of the land, and have set your heart to seek God.”
And Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, of the sons of Elam, addressed Ezra: “We have broken faith with our God and have married foreign women from the peoples of the land, but even now there is hope for Israel in spite of this.
The Lord looks down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there are any that act wisely, that seek after God.
The Lord is near to all who call upon him, to all who call upon him in truth.
He has raised up a horn for his people, praise for all his saints, for the people of Israel who are near to him. Praise the Lord!
Thou hast said, “Seek ye my face.” My heart says to thee, “Thy face, Lord, do I seek.”
Therefore let every one who is godly offer prayer to thee; at a time of distress, in the rush of great waters, they shall not reach him.
Many are the afflictions of the righteous; but the Lord delivers him out of them all.
We give thanks to thee, O God; we give thanks; we call on thy name and recount thy wondrous deeds.
For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. O that today you would hearken to his voice!
Shout, and sing for joy, O inhabitant of Zion, for great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel.”
My soul yearns for thee in the night, my spirit within me earnestly seeks thee. For when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
I did not speak in secret, in a land of darkness; I did not say to the offspring of Jacob, ‘Seek me in chaos.’ I the Lord speak the truth, I declare what is right.
“Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other.
I bring near my deliverance, it is not far off, and my salvation will not tarry; I will put salvation in Zion, for Israel my glory.”
Thus says the Lord: “In a time of favor I have answered you, in a day of salvation I have helped you; I have kept you and given you as a covenant to the people, to establish the land, to apportion the desolate heritages;
Then you shall call, and the Lord will answer; you shall cry, and he will say, Here I am. “If you take away from the midst of you the yoke, the pointing of the finger, and speaking wickedness,
Sharon shall become a pasture for flocks, and the Valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down, for my people who have sought me.
saying, ‘Turn now, every one of you, from his evil way and wrong doings, and dwell upon the land which the Lord has given to you and your fathers from of old and for ever;
Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things which you have not known.
“Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord God: Repent and turn away from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations.
Say to them, As I live, says the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live; turn back, turn back from your evil ways; for why will you die, O house of Israel?
And he said to me, “Son of man, do you see what they are doing, the great abominations that the house of Israel are committing here, to drive me far from my sanctuary? But you will see still greater abominations.”
Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you; break off your sins by practicing righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the oppressed, that there may perhaps be a lengthening of your tranquillity.”
Sow for yourselves righteousness, reap the fruit of steadfast love; break up your fallow ground, for it is the time to seek the Lord, that he may come and rain salvation upon you.
Seek the Lord and live, lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, with none to quench it for Bethel,
but let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and let them cry mightily to God; yea, let every one turn from his evil way and from the violence which is in his hands.
Make friends quickly with your accuser, while you are going with him to court, lest your accuser hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the guard, and you be put in prison;
When once the householder has risen up and shut the door, you will begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, ‘Lord, open to us.’ He will answer you, ‘I do not know where you come from.’
Again he said to them, “I go away, and you will seek me and die in your sin; where I am going, you cannot come.”
So I ask you not to lose heart over what I am suffering for you, which is your glory.
But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find him, if you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.
For what great nation is there that has a god so near to it as the Lord our God is to us, whenever we call upon him?
how shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was declared at first by the Lord, and it was attested to us by those who heard him,
But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.