Oh that I knew where I might find him! That I might come even to his seat!
Oh, that I knew where I might find Him, that I might come even to His seat!
Oh, that I could know how to find him— come to his dwelling place;
Who will grant me that I might know and find him, and that I may approach even to his throne?
Who will grant me that I might know and find him, and come even to his throne?
Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
Oh that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbor!
Even today is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.
I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O Lord, have we waited for thee; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee.
Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, O God of Israel, the Saviour.
O Lord, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou it for thy name's sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee.
Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief: