Isaiah 26:9

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.

But seek God’s Kingdom, and all these things will be added to you.

Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”

For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and streams on the dry ground. I will pour my Spirit on your descendants, and my blessing on your offspring:

for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread.

Yes, no one who waits for you will be shamed. They will be shamed who deal treacherously without cause.

“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth.”

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing.

For this, let everyone who is godly pray to you in a time when you may be found. Surely when the great waters overflow, they shall not reach to him.

Trust in Yahweh, and do good. Dwell in the land, and enjoy safe pasture.

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.

For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.

Trust in him at all times, you people. Pour out your heart before him. God is a refuge for us.

For in it is revealed God’s righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, “But the righteous shall live by faith.”

For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.

For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.

What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

Because of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.

My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?

Seek Yahweh, and you will live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, and there be no one to quench it in Bethel.

Yahweh looked down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who understood, who sought after God.

I spread out my hands to you. My soul thirsts for you, like a parched land.

Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this,” says Yahweh of Armies, “if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there will not be room enough for.

“Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!”

One who has my commandments and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.”

how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation—which at the first having been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard,

If you want to seek God diligently, make your supplication to the Almighty.

and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith,

Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

It will happen that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.

“Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘I said indeed that your house and the house of your father should walk before me forever.’ But now Yahweh says, ‘Far be it from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me will be cursed.

I have also given you that which you have not asked, both riches and honor, so that there will not be any among the kings like you for all your days.

Elijah said to her, “Don’t be afraid. Go and do as you have said; but make me a little cake from it first, and bring it out to me, and afterward make some for you and for your son.

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

But you be strong, and don’t let your hands be slack; for your work will be rewarded.”

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.

Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.

“Because he has set his love on me, therefore I will deliver him. I will set him on high, because he has known my name.

I pour out my complaint before him. I tell him my troubles.

“I am Yahweh. That is my name. I will not give my glory to another, nor my praise to engraved images.

Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches! Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord. Lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, who faint for hunger at the head of every street.

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

Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,

For thus you will be richly supplied with the entrance into the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

For what great nation is there that has a god so near to them as Yahweh our God is whenever we call on him?

Hannah answered, “No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit. I have not been drinking wine or strong drink, but I poured out my soul before Yahweh.

that you shall be driven from men, and your dwelling shall be with the animals of the field. You shall be made to eat grass as oxen, and shall be wet with the dew of the sky, and seven times shall pass over you; until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will.

From that time, Jesus began to preach, and to say, “Repent! For the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.”

Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.

This is my covenant with them, when I will take away their sins.”

with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints:

He said with a loud voice, “Fear the Lord, and give him glory; for the hour of his judgment has come. Worship him who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and the springs of waters!”

and he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin! Yahweh is with you, while you are with him; and if you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.

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

Now, Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in you.

My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched out in the night, and didn’t get tired. My soul refused to be comforted.

He is Yahweh, our God. His judgments are in all the earth.

He has lifted up the horn of his people, the praise of all his saints, even of the children of Israel, a people near to him. Praise Yah!

Yahweh, in trouble they have visited you. They poured out a prayer when your chastening was on them.

‘Yahweh has produced our righteousness: come, and let’s declare in Zion the work of Yahweh our God.’

This is an obvious sign of the righteous judgment of God, to the end that you may be counted worthy of God’s Kingdom, for which you also suffer.

God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you. My flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land, where there is no water.

My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of Yahweh. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

By night on my bed, I sought him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn’t find him.

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

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

I will bless Yahweh, who has given me counsel. Yes, my heart instructs me in the night seasons.

I have remembered your name, Yahweh, in the night, and I obey your law.

At midnight I will rise to give thanks to you, because of your righteous ordinances.

I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.

So it will be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment, to the nations that are around you, when I execute judgments on you in anger and in wrath, and in wrathful rebukes—I, Yahweh, have spoken it—

I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly.”

In these days, he went out to the mountain to pray, and he continued all night in prayer to God.

In that day there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city fell. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the rest were terrified, and gave glory to the God of heaven.

Who wouldn’t fear you, Lord, and glorify your name? For you only are holy. For all the nations will come and worship before you. For your righteous acts have been revealed.”

But Pharaoh will not listen to you, so I will lay my hand on Egypt, and bring out my armies, my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments.

He is Yahweh our God. His judgments are in all the earth.

Yahweh, in the morning you will hear my voice. In the morning I will lay my requests before you, and will watch expectantly.

so that men shall say, “Most certainly there is a reward for the righteous. Most certainly there is a God who judges the earth.”

My soul stays close to you. Your right hand holds me up.

All mankind shall be afraid. They shall declare the work of God, and shall wisely ponder what he has done.

When he killed them, then they inquired after him. They returned and sought God earnestly.

that they may know that you alone, whose name is Yahweh, are the Most High over all the earth.

Blessed are those whose strength is in you, who have set their hearts on a pilgrimage.

My soul longs for the Lord more than watchmen long for the morning, more than watchmen for the morning.

The desire of the righteous is only good. The expectation of the wicked is wrath.

which my soul still seeks, but I have not found. I have found one man among a thousand, but I have not found a woman among all those.

Tell me, you whom my soul loves, where you graze your flock, where you rest them at noon; for why should I be as one who is veiled beside the flocks of your companions?

Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob will be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in pieces, so that the Asherah poles and the incense altars shall rise no more.

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

“ ‘Thus I will cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to be lewd like you.

All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and no one can stop his hand, or ask him, “What are you doing?”

Then the men feared Yahweh exceedingly; and they offered a sacrifice to Yahweh, and made vows.

Early in the morning, while it was still dark, he rose up and went out, and departed into a deserted place, and prayed there.

I rise before dawn and cry for help. I put my hope in your words.