Isaiah 26:9

The soul seeks God earnestly through the night, knowing that His judgments teach the world righteousness. God's discipline of the earth instructs people in His ways.

Cross-references · 20

• Matt 6:33But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.
• Ps 119:62At midnight I will rise to give thanks to you, because of your righteous ordinances.
• Ps 63:1A Psalm by David, when he was in the desert of Judah. God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you. My flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land, where there is no water.
• Song 3:1–4By night on my bed, I sought him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn’t find him.
• Ps 63:6–7when I remember you on my bed, and think about you in the night watches.
• Luke 6:12In these days, he went out to the mountain to pray, and he continued all night in prayer to God.
• Ps 58:11so that men shall say, “Most certainly there is a reward for the righteous. Most certainly there is a God who judges the earth.”
• Mark 1:35Early in the morning, while it was still dark, he rose up and went out, and departed into a deserted place, and prayed there.
• Rev 11:13In that day there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city fell. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the rest were terrified, and gave glory to the God of heaven.
• Prov 8:17I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.
• Ps 77:2–3In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched out in the night, and didn’t get tired. My soul refused to be comforted.
• Isa 55:6Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.
• Song 5:2–8I was asleep, but my heart was awake. It is the voice of my beloved who knocks: “Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; for my head is filled with dew, and my hair with the dampness of the night.”
• Hos 5:15I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly.”
• Ps 64:9All mankind shall be afraid. They shall declare the work of God, and shall wisely ponder what he has done.
• Isa 27:9Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob will be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in pieces, so that the Asherah poles and the incense altars shall rise no more.
• Ps 83:18that they may know that you alone, whose name is Yahweh, are the Most High over all the earth.
• Ps 130:6My soul longs for the Lord more than watchmen long for the morning; more than watchmen for the morning.
• Ps 78:34When he killed them, then they inquired after him. They returned and sought God earnestly.
• Num 14:21–23but in very deed, as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with Yahweh’s glory;

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