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Isaiah 55:6
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Isaiah 55:6
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6 [a]Seek the Lord while he may be found,
call upon him while he is near.
Footnotes
- 55:6–9 The invitation to seek the Lord is motivated by the mercy of a God whose “ways” are completely mysterious.
Isaiah 55:6
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Isaiah 55:6
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Isaiah 55:6
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Isaiah 55:6
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6 Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:
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Jeremiah 29:13
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Jeremiah 29:13
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13 When you look for me, you will find me. Yes, when you seek me with all your heart,
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Jeremiah 29:13
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Jeremiah 29:13
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Jeremiah 29:13
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Jeremiah 29:13
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13 And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.
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Amos 5:4-6
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Amos 5:4-6
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4 For thus says the Lord[a]
to the house of Israel:
Seek me, that you may live,(A)
5 but do not seek Bethel;
Do not come to Gilgal,
and do not cross over to Beer-sheba;
For Gilgal shall be led into exile
and Bethel shall be no more.
6 [b]Seek the Lord, that you may live,
lest he flare up against the house of Joseph[c] like a fire
that shall consume the house of Israel, with no one to quench it.
Footnotes
- 5:4–5 For thus says the Lord…Bethel shall be no more: these two verses continue the sarcasm of 4:4–5, verses in which Amos invites the people to come and “sin” at Bethel and Gilgal. The cult cities of Samaria should have been places where God could be “sought” but, because of the sins of the Northern Kingdom, these cities would cease to exist.
- 5:6 These verses have been rearranged to achieve the proper sequence according to the best possible manuscript tradition. Cf. the Textual Notes accompanying the translation.
- 5:6 House of Joseph: the kingdom of Israel or Northern Kingdom, the chief tribes of which were descended from Ephraim and Manasseh, the sons of Joseph; cf. 5:15; 6:6.
Amos 5:4-6
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Amos 5:4-6
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4 This is what the Lord says to Israel:
“Seek(A) me and live;(B)
5 do not seek Bethel,
do not go to Gilgal,(C)
do not journey to Beersheba.(D)
For Gilgal will surely go into exile,
and Bethel will be reduced to nothing.[a](E)”
6 Seek(F) the Lord and live,(G)
or he will sweep through the tribes of Joseph like a fire;(H)
it will devour them,
and Bethel(I) will have no one to quench it.(J)
Footnotes
- Amos 5:5 Hebrew aven, a reference to Beth Aven (a derogatory name for Bethel); see Hosea 4:15.
Amos 5:4-6
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Amos 5:4-6
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4 For thus saith the Lord unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:
5 But seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nought.
6 Seek 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.
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Amos 8:12
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Amos 8:12
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12 They shall stagger from sea to sea
and wander from north to east
In search of the word of the Lord,
but they shall not find it.(A)
Amos 8:12
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Amos 8:12
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12 People will stagger from sea to sea
and wander from north to east,
searching for the word of the Lord,
but they will not find it.(A)
Amos 8:12
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Amos 8:12
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12 And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and shall not find it.
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John 7:34
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John 7:34
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34 You will look for me but not find [me], and where I am you cannot come.”(A)
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John 7:34
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John 7:34
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34 You will look for me, but you will not find me; and where I am, you cannot come.”(A)
John 7:34
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John 7:34
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34 Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, thither ye cannot come.
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