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Seek the Lord and his strength;
    seek his presence continually.(A)

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“Come,” my heart says, “seek his face!”
    Your face, Lord, do I seek.(A)

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before you are driven away[a]
    like the drifting chaff,[b]
before there comes upon you
    the fierce anger of the Lord,
before there comes upon you
    the day of the Lord’s wrath.(A)
Seek the Lord, all you humble of the land
    who do his commands;
seek righteousness, seek humility;
    perhaps you may be hidden
    on the day of the Lord’s wrath.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 2.2 Cn: Heb before a decree is born
  2. 2.2 Cn: Heb like chaff a day has passed away

For thus says the Lord to the house of Israel:
Seek me and live,(A)
    but do not seek Bethel,
and do not enter into Gilgal
    or cross over to Beer-sheba,
for Gilgal shall surely go into exile,
    and Bethel shall come to nothing.(B)

Seek the Lord and live,
    or he will break out against the house of Joseph like fire,
    and it will devour Bethel, with no one to quench it.(C)

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41 Now rise up, O Lord God, and go to your resting place,
    you and the ark of your might.
Let your priests, O Lord God, be clothed with salvation,
    and let your faithful rejoice in your goodness.(A)

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Rise up, O Lord, and go to your resting place,
    you and the ark of your might.(A)

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61 and delivered his power to captivity,
    his glory to the hand of the foe.(A)

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