¹¹ Let your search be for the Lord and for his strength; let your hearts ever be turned to him.

⁸ But you will have power, when the Holy Spirit has come on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and all Judaea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.

¹⁶ That in the wealth of his glory he would make you strong with power through his Spirit in your hearts;

⁹ And you, Solomon my son, get knowledge of the God of your father, and be his servant with a true heart and with a strong desire, for the Lord is the searcher of all hearts, and has knowledge of all the designs of men's thoughts; if you make search for him, he will be near you; but if you are turned away from him, he will give you up for ever.

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

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;

⁸ It is better to have faith in the Lord than to put one's hope in man.

⁹ It is better to have faith in the Lord than to put one's hope in rulers.

¹⁰ All the nations have come round me; but in the name of the Lord I will have them cut down.

²⁹ He gives power to the feeble, increasing the strength of him who has no force.

³⁰ Even the young men will become feeble and tired, and the best of them will come to the end of his strength;

³¹ But those who are waiting for the Lord will have new strength; they will get wings like eagles: running, they will not be tired, and walking, they will have no weariness.

²² Whoever gets a wife gets a good thing, and has the approval of the Lord.

¹ I have been ready to give an answer to those who did not make prayer to me; I have been offering myself to those who were not searching for me; I said, Here am I, here am I, to a nation which gave no respect to my name.

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

² Happy are they who keep his unchanging word, searching after him with all their heart.

⁶ And without faith it is not possible to be well-pleasing to him, for it is necessary for anyone who comes to God to have the belief that God is, and that he is a rewarder of all those who make a serious search for him.

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

¹⁴ Go after good and not evil, so that life may be yours: and so the Lord, the God of armies, will be with you, as you say.

¹⁴ If my people, on whom my name is named, make themselves low and come to me in prayer, searching for me and turning from their evil ways; then I will give ear from heaven, overlooking their sin, and will give life again to their land.

²⁸ My soul is wasted with sorrow; give me strength again in keeping with your word

¹⁰ And those who have knowledge of your name will put their faith in you; because you, Lord, have ever given your help to those who were waiting for you.

¹⁰ Lastly, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his power.

¹⁰ I have made search for you with all my heart: O let me not go wandering far from your teaching.

⁷ For God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of self-control.

⁵ He will have blessing from the Lord, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.

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

⁷ Let your heads be lifted up, O doors; be lifted up, O you eternal doors: that the King of glory may come in.

² And he came face to face with Asa and said to him, Give ear to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin: the Lord is with you while you are with him; if your heart's desire is for him, he will be near you, but if you give him up, he will give you up.

⁹ And I say to you, Make requests, and they will be answered; what you are searching for, you will get; when you give the sign, the door will be open to you.

¹⁰ For to everyone who makes a request, it will be given; and he who is searching will get his desire; and to him who gives the sign, the door will be open.

¹¹ And which of you, being a father, will give a stone to his son, who makes request for bread? or for a fish, will give him a snake?

⁴ For these are the words of the Lord to the children of Israel: Let your hearts be turned to me, so that you may have life:

¹¹ Full of strength in the measure of the great power of his glory, so that you may undergo all troubles with joy;

³¹ But let your chief care be for his kingdom, and these other things will be given to you in addition.

²⁹ Is not my word like fire? says the Lord; and like a hammer, smashing the rock to bits?

⁴ I was searching for the Lord, and he gave ear to my voice, and made me free from all my fears.

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

¹⁰ The young lions are in need and have no food; but those who are looking to the Lord will have every good thing.

¹⁴ So let your desire be for wisdom: if you have it, there will be a future, and your hope will not be cut off.

⁴⁵ So that my way may be in a wide place: because my search has been for your orders.

² The Lord was looking down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who had wisdom, searching after God.

⁷ Make a request, and it will be answered; what you are searching for you will get; give the sign, and the door will be open to you:

⁹ And I say to you, Make requests, and they will be answered; what you are searching for, you will get; when you give the sign, the door will be open to you.

⁴ So will your delight be in the Lord, and he will give you your heart's desires.

¹ <To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David.> O Lord, you have knowledge of me, searching out all my secrets.

² You have knowledge when I am seated and when I get up, you see my thoughts from far away.

³ You keep watch over my steps and my sleep, and have knowledge of all my ways.

¹⁰ For the Son of man came to make search for those who are wandering from the way, and to be their Saviour.