For thus says the Lord to the house of Israel:

(A)“Seek me and live;

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and he went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: (A)The Lord is with you while you are with him. (B)If you seek him, he will be found by you, (C)but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.

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(A)Seek the Lord, (B)all you humble of the land,
    who do his just commands;[a]
(C)seek righteousness; seek humility;
    (D)perhaps (E)you may be hidden
    on the day of the anger of the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Zephaniah 2:3 Or who carry out his judgment

12 (A)Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, (B)and I will hear you. 13 (C)You will seek me and find me, when you seek me (D)with all your heart.

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The Lord (A)looks down from heaven on the children of man,
    to see if there are any who understand,[a]
    who (B)seek after God.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 14:2 Or that act wisely

Incline your ear, and come to me;
    (A)hear, that your soul may live;
(B)and I will make with you an everlasting covenant,
    (C)my steadfast, sure love for (D)David.

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For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.

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(A)“Seek the Lord while he may be found;
    call upon him while he is near;
let the wicked forsake his way,
    and the unrighteous man his thoughts;
let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him,
    and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

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Glory in his holy name;
    let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice!
Seek the Lord and his (A)strength;
    (B)seek his presence continually!

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25 The Lord is good to those who (A)wait for him,
    to the soul who seeks him.
26 (B)It is good that one should wait quietly
    for the salvation of the Lord.

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David's Charge to Solomon

“And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve him with a (A)whole heart and with a willing mind, (B)for the Lord searches all hearts and understands every plan and thought. (C)If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

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For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet a boy, he began to seek the God of David his father, and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the (A)Asherim, and the carved and the metal images.

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Then Jehoshaphat was afraid and set his face (A)to seek the Lord, and (B)proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.

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