Isaiah 55:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁶ Seek the Lord while he may be found; call upon him while he is near;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ 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)

⁶ Seek ye Jehovah while he may be found; call ye upon him while he is near:

Common English Bible

⁶ Seek the LORD when he can still be found; call him while he is yet near.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ 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

⁶ Seek ye the Lord while he may be found: call upon him while he is near.

Isaiah 55:6 Cross References

1 Chronicles 28:9

“And you, my son Solomon, know the God of your father, and serve him with single mind and willing heart, for the Lord searches every mind and understands every plan and thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will abandon you forever.

2 Chronicles 19:3

Nevertheless, some good is found in you, for you destroyed the sacred poles out of the land and have set your heart to seek God.”

Ezra 10:2

Shecaniah son of Jehiel, of the descendants of Elam, addressed Ezra, saying, “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.

Job 8:5

If you will seek God and make supplication to the Almighty,

Psalm 14:2

The Lord looks down from heaven on humankind to see if there are any who are wise, who seek after God.

Psalm 145:18

The Lord is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

Psalm 148:14

He has raised up a horn for his people, praise for all his faithful, for the people of Israel who are close to him. Praise the Lord!

Psalm 27:8

“Come,” my heart says, “seek his face!” Your face, Lord, do I seek.

Psalm 32:6

Therefore let all who are faithful offer prayer to you; at a time of distress, the rush of mighty waters shall not reach them.

Psalm 34:19

Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord rescues them from them all.

Psalm 75:1

We give thanks to you, O God; we give thanks; your name is near. People tell of your wondrous deeds.

Psalm 95:7

For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand. O that today you would listen to his voice!

Proverbs 8:17

I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently find me.

Isaiah 12:6

Shout aloud and sing for joy, O royal Zion, for great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel.”

Isaiah 26:9

My soul yearns for you in the night; my spirit within me earnestly seeks you. For when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

Isaiah 45:19

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.

Isaiah 45:22

Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other.

Isaiah 46:13

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.

Isaiah 49:8

Thus says the Lord: In a time of favor I have answered you; on 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,

Isaiah 58:9

Then you shall call, and the Lord will answer; you shall cry for help, and he will say, “Here I am.” If you remove the yoke from among you, the pointing of the finger, the speaking of evil,

Isaiah 65:10

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.

Isaiah 65:24

Before they call I will answer, while they are yet speaking I will hear.

Jeremiah 25:5

when they said, “Turn now, every one of you, from your evil way and wicked doings, and you will remain on the land that the Lord has given to you and your ancestors from of old and forever;

Jeremiah 33:3

Call to me, and I will answer you and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.

Ezekiel 14:6

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.

Ezekiel 33:11

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 their ways and live; turn back, turn back from your evil ways, for why will you die, O house of Israel?

Ezekiel 8:6

He said to me, “Mortal, 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? Yet you will see still greater abominations.”

Daniel 4:27

Therefore, O king, may my counsel be acceptable to you: atone for your sins with righteousness and your iniquities with mercy to the oppressed, so that your prosperity may be prolonged.”

Hosea 10:12

Sow for yourselves righteousness; reap steadfast love; break up your fallow ground, for it is time to seek the Lord, that he may come and rain righteousness upon you.

Amos 5:6

Seek the Lord and live, or he will break out against the house of Joseph like fire, and it will devour Bethel, with no one to quench it.

Jonah 3:8

Humans and animals shall be covered with sackcloth, and they shall cry mightily to God. All shall turn from their evil ways and from the violence that is in their hands.

Matthew 5:25

Come to terms quickly with your accuser while you are on the way to court with him, or your accuser may hand you over to the judge and the judge to the guard, and you will be thrown into prison.

Luke 13:25

Once the owner of the house has got up and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, ‘Lord, open to us,’ then in reply he will say to you, ‘I do not know where you come from.’

John 8:21

Again he said to them, “I am going away, and you will search for me, but you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come.”

Ephesians 3:13

I pray, therefore, that you may not lose heart over my sufferings for you; they are your glory.

Deuteronomy 4:29

From there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find him if you search after him with all your heart and soul.

Deuteronomy 4:7

For what other great nation has a god so near to it as the Lord our God is whenever we call to him?

Hebrews 2:3

how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation? It was declared at first through the Lord, and it was confirmed for us by those who heard him,

Hebrews 3:13

But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” so that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.