Psalms 10:4

“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.

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

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.

being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts.

I know that the king of Egypt won’t give you permission to go, no, not by a mighty hand.

“You shall not spread a false report. Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,

The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt. They have done abominable deeds. There is no one who does good.

Be exalted, God, above the heavens! Let your glory be above all the earth!

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

Yahweh says, “What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after worthless vanity, and have become worthless?

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.

who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;

Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against Yahweh.

For when I have brought them into the land which I swore to their fathers, flowing with milk and honey, and they have eaten and filled themselves, and grown fat, then they will turn to other gods, and serve them, and despise me, and break my covenant.

They rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified to them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom Yahweh had commanded them that they should not do like them.

Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of my hand, that Yahweh should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?’ ”

What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’

a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are swift in running to mischief,

Now if you are ready whenever you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music to fall down and worship the image which I have made, good; but if you don’t worship, you shall be cast the same hour into the middle of a burning fiery furnace. Who is that god that will deliver you out of my hands?”

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.

They called to Lot, and said to him, “Where are the men who came in to you this night? Bring them out to us, that we may have sex with them.”

You have indeed struck Edom, and your heart has lifted you up. Enjoy the glory of it, and stay at home; for why should you meddle to your harm, that you fall, even you, and Judah with you?’ ”

Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me, and prepares his way so that I will show God’s salvation to him.”

They forgot God, their Savior, who had done great things in Egypt,

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

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

“Your own wickedness will correct you, and your backsliding will rebuke you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing, that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, and that my fear is not in you,” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.

“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”

The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?

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

Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor. Perhaps there may be a lengthening of your tranquility.”

For Yahweh says to the house of Israel: “Seek me, and you will live;

However at that time, not knowing God, you were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods.

You, being in past times alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil deeds,

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.”

Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.

But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat. You have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he abandoned God who made him, and rejected the Rock of his salvation.

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

You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother’s son.

Be merciful to me, God, be merciful to me, for my soul takes refuge in you. Yes, in the shadow of your wings, I will take refuge, until disaster has passed.

for their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood.

In that day you will say, “Give thanks to Yahweh! Call on his name. Declare his doings among the peoples. Proclaim that his name is exalted!

It will happen in that day that Yahweh will punish the army of the high ones on high, and the kings of the earth on the earth.

Your habitation is in the middle of deceit. Through deceit, they refuse to know me,” says Yahweh.

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

This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.

because that which is known of God is revealed in them, for God revealed it to them.

Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves;

not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don’t know God,

But we don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope.

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

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!”

Beware lest you forget Yahweh your God, in not keeping his commandments, his ordinances, and his statutes, which I command you today;

The humble shall eat and be satisfied. They shall praise Yahweh who seek after him. Let your hearts live forever.

The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity. There is no one who does good.

when God arose to judgment, to save all the afflicted ones of the earth.

“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?

those who have turned back from following Yahweh, and those who haven’t sought Yahweh nor inquired after him.

Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth.

but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God.

Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.

Pharaoh said, “Who is Yahweh, that I should listen to his voice to let Israel go? I don’t know Yahweh, and moreover I will not let Israel go.”

then your heart might be lifted up, and you forget Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage;

So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man will perish,

They tell God, ‘Depart from us, for we don’t want to know about your ways.

who said to God, ‘Depart from us;’ and, ‘What can the Almighty do for us?’

For you will save the afflicted people, but the arrogant eyes you will bring down.

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

A revelation is within my heart about the disobedience of the wicked: “There is no fear of God before his eyes.”

“Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be no one to deliver.

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

God, the proud have risen up against me. A company of violent men have sought after my soul, and they don’t hold regard for you before them.

I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won’t tolerate one who is arrogant and conceited.

Salvation is far from the wicked, for they don’t seek your statutes.

arrogant eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,

A high look and a proud heart, the lamp of the wicked, is sin.

lest I be full, deny you, and say, ‘Who is Yahweh?’ or lest I be poor, and steal, and so dishonor the name of my God.

There is a generation, oh how lofty are their eyes! Their eyelids are lifted up.

The lofty looks of man will be brought low, the arrogance of men will be bowed down, and Yahweh alone will be exalted in that day.

The look of their faces testify against them. They parade their sin like Sodom. They don’t hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have brought disaster upon themselves.

Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity. Desolation and destruction are in their paths.

I have spread out my hands all day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts;

Generation, consider Yahweh’s word. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? Or a land of thick darkness? Why do my people say, ‘We have broken loose. We will come to you no more?’

Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long will your evil thoughts lodge within you?

The pride of Israel testifies to his face; yet they haven’t returned to Yahweh their God, nor sought him, for all this.

According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted. Therefore they have forgotten me.

Seek Yahweh, all you humble of the land, who have kept his ordinances. Seek righteousness. Seek humility. It may be that you will be hidden in the day of Yahweh’s anger.

She didn’t obey the voice. She didn’t receive correction. She didn’t trust in Yahweh. She didn’t draw near to her God.

Then those who feared Yahweh spoke one with another; and Yahweh listened, and heard, and a book of memory was written before him, for those who feared Yahweh, and who honored his name.

For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,

covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.

Repent therefore of this, your wickedness, and ask God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.

Because knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, and didn’t give thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.

Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.