KJV King James Version
Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:
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Isaiah 55:6
Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.
WEB World English Bible
Seek Yahweh while he may be found; call you on him while he is near:
ASV American Standard Version
Seek ye Jehovah while he may be found; call ye upon him while he is near:
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Seek ye Jehovah, while He is found, Call ye Him, while He is near,
Surrounding context — Isaiah 55
3 Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, [even] the sure mercies of David.
4 Behold, I have given him [for] a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people.
5 Behold, thou shalt call a nation [that] thou knowest not, and nations [that] knew not thee shall run unto thee because of the LORD thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he hath glorified thee.
6 Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:
7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
8 For my thoughts [are] not your thoughts, neither [are] your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
9 For [as] the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
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Jeremiah 29:12-14Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.Psalm 145:18The LORD [is] nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth.Isaiah 45:19I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.Psalm 32:6For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him.Psalm 14:2The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, [and] seek God.Isaiah 65:24And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.Matthew 7:7-8Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:2 Corinthians 6:1-2We then, [as] workers together [with him], beseech [you] also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.Amos 5:6Seek the LORD, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour [it], and [there be] none to quench [it] in Bethel.1 Chronicles 28:9And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.John 12:35-36Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth.Hebrews 2:3How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard [him];Psalm 27:8[When thou saidst], Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek.Job 8:5If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;Deuteronomy 4:7For what nation [is there so] great, who [hath] God [so] nigh unto them, as the LORD our God [is] in all [things that] we call upon him [for]?John 7:33-34Then said Jesus unto them, Yet a little while am I with you, and [then] I go unto him that sent me.Isaiah 49:8Thus saith the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages;Psalm 95:7For he [is] our God; and we [are] the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. To day if ye will hear his voice,
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