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Seek ye the Lord, while he may be found: call upon him, while he is near.
Seek ye the Lord, while he may be found: call upon him, while he is near.
They have sought me that before asked not for me, they have found me that sought me not. I said: Behold me, behold me, to a nation that did not call upon my name.
It is he that giveth strength to the weary, and increaseth force and might to them that are not. Youths shall faint, and labour, and young men shall fall by infirmity. But they that hope in the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall take wings as eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.
Seek ye the Lord, and his power: seek ye his face evermore.
Seek ye the Lord, and his power: seek ye his face evermore.
And thou my son Solomon, know the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart, and a willing mind: for the Lord searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the thoughts of minds. If thou seek him, thou shalt find him: but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.
And my people, upon whom my name is called, being converted, shall make supplication to me, and seek out my face, and do penance for their most wicked ways: then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sins and will heal their land.
And he went out to meet Asa, and said to him: Hear ye me, Asa, and all Juda and Benjamin: The Lord is with you, because you have been with him. If you seek him, you shall find: but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.
And the spirit of God came upon Azarias the son of Oded, And he went out to meet Asa, and said to him: Hear ye me, Asa, and all Juda and Benjamin: The Lord is with you, because you have been with him. If you seek him, you shall find: but if you forsake him, he will forsake you. And many days shall pass in Israel without the true God, and without a priest a teacher, and without the law. And when in their distress they shall return to the Lord the God of Israel, and shall seek him, they shall find him. At that time there shall be no peace to him that goeth out and cometh in, but terrors on every side among all the inhabitants of the earth. For nation shall fight against nation, and city against city, for the Lord will trouble them with all distress. Do you therefore take courage, and let not your hands he weakened: for there shall be a reward for your work. And when Asa had heard the words, and the prophecy of Azarias the son of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and took away the idols out of all the land of Juda, and out of Benjamin, and out of the cities of mount Ephraim, which he had taken, and he dedicated the altar of the Lord, which was before the porch of the Lord. And he gathered together all Juda and Benjamin, and the strangers with them of Ephraim, and Manasses, and Simeon: for many were come over to him out of Israel, seeing that the Lord his God was with him. And when they were come to Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa, They sacrificed to the Lord in that day of the spoils, and of the prey, that they had brought, seven hundred oxen, and seven thousand rams. And he went in to confirm as usual the covenant, that they should seek the Lord the God of their fathers with all their heart, and with all their soul. And if any one, said he, seek not the Lord the God of Israel, let him die, whether little or great, man or woman. And they swore to the Lord with a loud voice with joyful shouting, and with sound of trumpet, and sound of comets, All that mere in Juda with a curse: for with all their heart they swore, and with all their will they sought him, and they found him, and the Lord gave them rest round about. Moreover Maacha the mother of king Asa he deposed from the royal authority, because she had made in a grove an idol of Priapus: and he entirely destroyed it, and breaking it into pieces, burnt it at the torrent Cedron. But high places were left in Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days. And the things which his father had vowed, and he himself had vowed, he brought into the house of the Lord, gold and silver, and vessels of divers uses. And there was no war unto the five and thirtieth year of the kingdom of Asa.
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You shall seek me, and shall And me: when you shall seek me with all your heart.
You shall seek me, and shall And me: when you shall seek me with all your heart.
Are not my words as a fire, saith the Lord: and as a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?
And when thou shalt seek there the Lord thy God, thou shalt find him: yet so, if thou seek him with all thy heart, and all the affliction of thy soul.
O Lord, deliver my soul from wicked lips, and a deceitful tongue.
O Lord, deliver my soul from wicked lips, and a deceitful tongue.
Remember us, O Lord, in the favour of thy people: visit us with thy salvation.
Remember us, O Lord, in the favour of thy people: visit us with thy salvation.
The Lord is the strength of his people, and the protector of the salvation of his anointed.
Unto the end, a psalm for David.
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Ask, and it shall be given you: seek, and you shall find: knock, and it shall be opened to you.
And I say to you, Ask, and it shall be given you: seek, and you shall find: knock, and it shall be opened to you. For every one that asketh, receiveth; and he that seeketh, findeth; and to him that knocketh, it shall be opened.
And I say to you, Ask, and it shall be given you: seek, and you shall find: knock, and it shall be opened to you.
But seek ye first the kingdom of God and his justice, and all these things shall be added unto you.
For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.
And the Lord is become a refuge for the poor: a helper in due time in tribulation.
And the Lord is become a refuge for the poor: a helper in due time in tribulation.
Let them be confounded and ashamed that seek after my soul. Let them be turned back and be confounded that devise against me.
All my bones shall say: Lord, who is like to thee? Who deliverest the poor from the hand of them that are stronger than he; the needy and the poor from them that strip him.
There is no health in my flesh, because of thy wrath: there is no peace for my bones, because of my sins.
He that walketh without blemish, and worketh justice:
Unto the end, a psalm for David.
Deliver me, O Lord, from the evil man: rescue me from the unjust man.
Direct me in thy truth, and teach me; for thou art God my Saviour; and on thee have I waited all the day long.
Remember, O Lord, thy bowels of compassion; and thy mercies that are from the beginning of the world.
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For thus saith the Lord to the house of Israel: Seek ye me, and you shall live.
For thus saith the Lord to the house of Israel: Seek ye me, and you shall live.
Seek ye good, and not evil, that you may live: and the Lord the God of hosts will be with you, as you have said.
That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened by his Spirit with might unto the inward man,
Finally, brethren, be strengthened in the Lord, and in the might of his power.
Strengthened with all might, according to the power of his glory, in all patience and longsuffering with joy,
For God hath not given us the spirit of fear: but of power, and of love, and of sobriety.
But without faith it is impossible to please God. For he that cometh to God, must believe that he is, and is a rewarder to them that seek him.
But without faith it is impossible to please God. For he that cometh to God, must believe that he is, and is a rewarder to them that seek him.
But you shall receive the power of the Holy Ghost coming upon you, and you shall be witnesses unto me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and even to the uttermost part of the earth.
The Lord render unto thee for thy work, and mayest thou receive a full reward of the Lord the God of Israel, to whom thou art come, and under whose wings thou art fled.
And the spirit of the Lord came upon Samson, and he tore the lion as he would have torn a kid in pieces, having nothing at all in his hand: and he would not tell this to his father and mother.
But he called upon the Lord, saying: O Lord God, remember me, and restore to me now my former strength, O my God, that I may revenge myself on my enemies, and for the loss of my two eyes I may take one revenge.
I will keep thy justifications: O! do not thou utterly forsake me.
BETH. By what doth a young man correct his way? by observing thy words.
He that hath found a good wife, hath found a good thing, and shall receive a pleasure from the Lord. He that driveth away a good wife, driveth away a good thing: but he that keepeth an adulteress, is foolish and wicked.
So also is the doctrine of wisdom to thy soul: which when thou hast found, thou shalt have hope in the end, and thy hope shall not perish.