‘Please, Lord, remember how I have walked before you faithfully and wholeheartedly and have done what pleases you.’ , And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
Amos 5:4 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised For the Lord says to the house of Israel: Seek me and live! Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. |
‘Please, Lord, remember how I have walked before you faithfully and wholeheartedly and have done what pleases you.’ , And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
‘As for you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him wholeheartedly and with a willing mind, for the Lord searches every heart and understands the intention of every thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you abandon him, he will reject you for ever.
So he went out to meet Asa and said to him, ‘Asa and all Judah and Benjamin, hear me. The Lord is with you when you are with him. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you abandon him, he will abandon you.
Jehoshaphat was afraid, and he resolved to seek the Lord. Then he proclaimed a fast for all Judah,
who gathered to seek the Lord. They even came from all the cities of Judah to seek him.
In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still a youth, Josiah began to seek the God of his ancestor David, and in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherah poles, the carved images, and the cast images.
Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help and who depend on horses! They trust in the abundance of chariots and in the large number of horsemen. They do not look to the Holy One of Israel, and they do not seek the Lord.
Pay attention and come to me; listen, so that you will live. I will make a permanent covenant with you on the basis of the faithful kindnesses of David. ,
‘They will not hand you over,’ Jeremiah replied. ‘Obey the Lord in what I am telling you, so that it may go well for you and you can live.
He follows my statutes and keeps my ordinances, acting faithfully. Such a person is righteous; he will certainly live.’ This is the declaration of the Lord God.
Sow righteousness for yourselves and reap faithful love; break up your unploughed ground. It is time to seek the Lord until he comes and sends righteousness on you like the rain.
Seek the Lord and live, or he will spread like fire throughout the house of Joseph; it will consume everything with no one at Bethel to extinguish it.
Seek the Lord, all you humble of the earth, who carry out what he commands. Seek righteousness, seek humility; perhaps you will be concealed on the day of the Lord’s anger.
For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.
he said to them, ‘Take to heart all these words I am giving as a warning to you today, so that you may command your children to follow all the words of this law carefully.
For they are not meaningless words to you but they are your life, and by them you will live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess.’
But from there, you will search for the Lord your God, and you will find him when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul.