When you said, “Seek my face,” my heart said to you, “I will seek your face, Yahweh.”
Parallel translations
- KJV When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek.
- BSB My heart said, “Seek His face.” Your face, O LORD, I will seek.
- NKJV When You said, “Seek My face,” My heart said to You, “Your face, Lord, I will seek.”
- NASB When You said, “Seek My face,” my heart said to You, “I shall seek Your face, Lord.”
- NLT My heart has heard you say, “Come and talk with me.” And my heart responds, “Lord, I am coming.”
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Cross-references · 8
- Ps 105:4Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.
- Jer 29:12–13You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.
- Isa 55:6–7Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.
- Ps 119:58I sought your favor with my whole heart. Be merciful to me according to your word.
- Ps 24:6This is the generation of those who seek Him, who seek your face — even Jacob. Selah.
- Ps 63:1–2A 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.
- 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.”
- Isa 45:19I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness. I didn’t say to the offspring of Jacob, ‘Seek me in vain.’ I, Yahweh, speak righteousness. I declare things that are right.
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