⁸ When you said, Make search for my face, my heart said to you, For your face will I make my search.

⁴ Let your search be for the Lord and for his strength; let your hearts ever be turned to him.

¹² And you will go on crying to me and making prayer to me, and I will give ear to you.

¹³ And you will be searching for me and I will be there, when you have gone after me with all your heart.

⁵⁸ I have given my mind to do your pleasure with all my heart; have mercy on me, as you have said.

⁶ This is the generation of those whose hearts are turned to you, even to your face, O God of Jacob. (Selah.)

¹ <A Psalm. Of David. When he was in the waste land of Judah.> O God, you are my God; early will I make my search for you: my soul is dry for need of you, my flesh is wasted with desire for you, as a dry and burning land where no water is;

² To see your power and your glory, as I have seen you in the holy place.

⁶ Make search for the Lord while he is there, make prayer to him while he is near:

⁷ Let the sinner give up his way, and the evil-doer his purpose: and let him come back to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for there is full forgiveness with him.

¹⁹ I have not given my word in secret, in a place in the underworld; I did not say to the seed of Jacob, Go into a waste land to make request of me: I the Lord say what is true, my word is righteousness.

¹⁵ I will go back to my place till they are made waste; in their trouble they will go after me early and will make search for me.