Psalms 145:18

You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.

He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.

You have heard it. Now see all this. And you, won’t you declare it? “I have shown you new things from this time, even hidden things, which you have not known.

Yahweh will also be a high tower for the oppressed; a high tower in times of trouble.

For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, says: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

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.

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

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.

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.

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

“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.

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

Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”

He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.

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.

The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me, because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound,

Therefore tell them: Yahweh of Armies says: ‘Return to me,’ says Yahweh of Armies, ‘and I will return to you,’ says Yahweh of Armies.

From the days of your fathers you have turned away from my ordinances, and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you,” says Yahweh of Armies. “But you say, ‘How shall we return?’

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.”

Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,

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

Yahweh’s name is a strong tower: the righteous run to him, and are safe.

You shall seek me, and find me, when you search for me with all your heart.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. O God, you will not despise a broken and contrite heart.

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.

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

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

Yahweh of Armies is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge.

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

It will be that whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.’

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.

Then you will call, and Yahweh will answer. You will cry for help, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’ “If you take away from among you the yoke, finger pointing, and speaking wickedly;

Surely the Lord Yahweh will do nothing, unless he reveals his secret to his servants the prophets.

that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, “I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.”

If you love me, keep my commandments.

that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes, to him I will give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written, which no one knows but he who receives it.

“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.

Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.

Yahweh is gracious, merciful, slow to anger, and of great loving kindness.

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

I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.

Tear your heart, and not your garments, and turn to Yahweh, your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and relents from sending calamity.

“As in the days of your coming out of the land of Egypt, I will show them marvelous things.”

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

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

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

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.

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

Therefore, as for you, let that remain in you which you heard from the beginning. If that which you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son, and in the Father.

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.

Now while Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before God’s house, there was gathered together to him out of Israel a very great assembly of men and women and children; for the people wept very bitterly.

But it is good for me to come close to God. I have made the Lord Yahweh my refuge, that I may tell of all your works.

Surely his salvation is near those who fear him, that glory may dwell in our land.

In the fear of Yahweh is a secure fortress, and he will be a refuge for his children.

To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice.

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination— how much more, when he brings it with a wicked mind!

This is what Yahweh who made you, and formed you from the womb, who will help you says: “Don’t be afraid, Jacob my servant; and you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.

I will give you the treasures of darkness and hidden riches of secret places, that you may know that it is I, Yahweh, who call you by your name, even the God of Israel.

To what purpose does frankincense from Sheba come to me, and the sweet cane from a far country? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, and your sacrifices are not pleasing to me.”

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

It will happen that whoever will call on Yahweh’s name shall be saved; for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be those who escape, as Yahweh has said, and among the remnant, those whom Yahweh calls.

He prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Please, Yahweh, wasn’t this what I said when I was still in my own country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and you relent of doing harm.

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

Then I will tell them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.’

Woe to you lawyers! For you took away the key of knowledge. You didn’t enter in yourselves, and those who were entering in, you hindered.”

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

Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment.

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 God’s love has most certainly been perfected in whoever keeps his word. This is how we know that we are in him:

Hear, Yahweh, my righteous plea; Give ear to my prayer, that doesn’t go out of deceitful lips.

God is within her. She shall not be moved. God will help her at dawn.

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

For my hand has made all these things, and so all these things came to be,” says Yahweh: “but I will look to this man, even to he who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.

They haven’t cried to me with their heart, but they howl on their beds. They assemble themselves for grain and new wine. They turn away from me.

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.

You are near, Yahweh. All your commandments are truth.

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

Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for Yahweh has heard the voice of my weeping.

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

We give thanks to you, God. We give thanks, for your Name is near. Men tell about your wondrous works.

For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.

While I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before Yahweh my God for the holy mountain of my God;

You came near in the day that I called on you. You said, “Don’t be afraid.”

For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, and is rich to all who call on him.

to the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first. There Abram called on Yahweh’s name.

that your eyes may be open to the supplication of your servant, and to the supplication of your people Israel, to listen to them whenever they cry to you.

“Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you, on the kingdoms that don’t call on your name;