Exodus 33:7

‘Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great and difficult things, which you don’t know.’

You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

But when in their distress they turned to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and sought him, he was found by them.

“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.

One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in Yahweh’s house all the days of my life, to see Yahweh’s beauty, and to inquire in his temple.

We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.

The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

“Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withheld good from you.

Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.

For Christ hasn’t entered into holy places made with hands, which are representations of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;

For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears open to their prayer; but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”

From the end of the earth, I will call to you when my heart is overwhelmed. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

Blessed are those who keep his statutes, who seek him with their whole heart.

He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him. He also will hear their cry, and will save them.

Yahweh said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.

Moses went up to God, and Yahweh called to him out of the mountain, saying, “This is what you shall tell the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel:

if you will obey Yahweh your God’s voice, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law; if you turn to Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

Now set your heart and your soul to follow Yahweh your God. Arise therefore, and build the sanctuary of Yahweh God, to bring the ark of Yahweh’s covenant and the holy vessels of God into the house that is to be built for Yahweh’s name.”

Surely God will not hear an empty cry, neither will the Almighty regard it.

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?

To you, Yahweh, I call. My rock, don’t be deaf to me, lest, if you are silent to me, I would become like those who go down into the pit.

With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don’t let me wander from your commandments.

I sought your favor with my whole heart. Be merciful to me according to your word.

When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.

Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.

Be instructed, Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated from you, lest I make you a desolation, an uninhabited land.”

Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.

Woe to them! For they have wandered from me. Destruction to them! For they have trespassed against me. Though I would redeem them, yet they have spoken lies against me.

Then they will cry to Yahweh, but he will not answer them. Yes, he will hide his face from them at that time, because they made their deeds evil.”

This is the boldness which we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.

There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was severe in the land.

There I will meet with you, and I will tell you from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim which are on the ark of the covenant, all that I command you for the children of Israel.

He shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire for him by the judgment of the Urim before Yahweh. At his word they shall go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he and all the children of Israel with him, even all the congregation.”

Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come on them; so that they will say in that day, ‘Haven’t these evils come on us because our God is not among us?’

if they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies, who carried them captive, and pray to you toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, the city which you have chosen, and the house which I have built for your name;

“If I go east, he is not there; if west, I can’t find him;

This is the generation of those who seek Him, who seek your face—even Jacob.

If I cherished sin in my heart, the Lord wouldn’t have listened.

God, don’t keep silent. Don’t keep silent, and don’t be still, God.

Yet for all this her treacherous sister, Judah, has not returned to me with her whole heart, but only in pretense,” says Yahweh.

The nations will know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity; because they trespassed against me, and I hid my face from them; so I gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and they all fell by the sword.

“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.

There was a famine in the land, in addition to the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar.

you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,

It shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the Tent of Meeting before Yahweh, where I will meet with you, to speak there to you.

But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God, and you shall find him when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.

Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to my commandments which I command you today, to love Yahweh your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,

Outside the sword will bereave, and in the rooms, terror on both young man and virgin, the nursing infant with the gray-haired man.

Israel has sinned. Yes, they have even transgressed my covenant which I commanded them. Yes, they have even taken some of the devoted things, and have also stolen, and also deceived. They have even put it among their own stuff.

There was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and David sought the face of Yahweh. Yahweh said, “It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put the Gibeonites to death.”

They said to the king, “The man who consumed us, and who devised against us, that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the borders of Israel,

But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of Yahweh, the God of Israel, with all his heart. He didn’t depart from the sins of Jeroboam, with which he made Israel to sin.

Why do you hide your face, and consider me your enemy?

He works to the north, but I can’t see him. He turns south, but I can’t catch a glimpse of him.

When he gives quietness, who then can condemn? When he hides his face, who then can see him? He is over a nation or a man alike,

Don’t be far from me, for trouble is near. For there is no one to help.

For in the day of trouble, he will keep me secretly in his pavilion. In the secret place of his tabernacle, he will hide me. He will lift me up on a rock.

Don’t hide your face from me. Don’t put your servant away in anger. You have been my help. Don’t abandon me, neither forsake me, God of my salvation.

You, Yahweh, when you favored me, made my mountain stand strong; but when you hid your face, I was troubled.

Don’t forsake me, Yahweh. My God, don’t be far from me.

Why do you hide your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?

God looks down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there are any who understood, who seek after God.

God, don’t be far from me. My God, hurry to help me.

God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?

Yahweh, why do you reject my soul? Why do you hide your face from me?

I will wait for Yahweh, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.

I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness. I didn’t say to the offspring of Jacob, ‘Seek me in vain.’ I, Yahweh, speak righteousness. I declare things that are right.

I was angry because of the iniquity of his covetousness and struck him. I hid myself and was angry; and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.

Behold, you fast for strife and contention, and to strike with the fist of wickedness. You don’t fast today so as to make your voice to be heard on high.

There is no one who calls on your name, who stirs himself up to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have consumed us by means of our iniquities.

You hope of Israel, its Savior in the time of trouble, why should you be as a foreigner in the land, and as a wayfaring man who turns aside to stay for a night?

I won’t hide my face from them any more; for I have poured out my Spirit on the house of Israel,’ says the Lord Yahweh.”

Ephraim is struck. Their root has dried up. They will bear no fruit. Even though they give birth, yet I will kill the beloved ones of their womb.”

You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously, and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,

When she heard this, she arose quickly and went to him.

Now indeed even the first covenant had ordinances of divine service and an earthly sanctuary.

And if we know that he listens to us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have asked of him.

Yahweh called to Moses, and spoke to him from the Tent of Meeting, saying,

Then David inquired of Yahweh yet again. Yahweh answered him, and said, “Arise, go down to Keilah; for I will deliver the Philistines into your hand.”

When David inquired of Yahweh, he said, “You shall not go up. Circle around behind them, and attack them in front of the mulberry trees.

So Gad came to David, and told him, and said to him, “Shall seven years of famine come to you in your land? Or will you flee three months before your foes while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days’ pestilence in your land? Now answer, and consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.”

Elijah the Tishbite, who was one of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.”

Elisha came again to Gilgal. There was a famine in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him; and he said to his servant, “Get the large pot, and boil stew for the sons of the prophets.”

They entered into the covenant to seek Yahweh, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul;

Why do you stand far off, Yahweh? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?

When you said, “Seek my face,” my heart said to you, “I will seek your face, Yahweh.”

You have seen it, Yahweh. Don’t keep silent. Lord, don’t be far from me.

I have called with my whole heart. Answer me, Yahweh! I will keep your statutes.

Yahweh is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.

But your iniquities have separated you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.

Though they bring up their children, yet I will bereave them, so that not a man shall be left. Indeed, woe also to them when I depart from them!

a servant of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, not man.