⁹ With my soul have I desired you in the night; yes, with my spirit within me will I seek you earnestly: for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

³³ But seek first God's Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

¹ > 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.

⁶² At midnight I will rise to give thanks to you, Because of your righteous ordinances.

¹⁷ I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.

¹ By night on my bed, I sought him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn't find him.

² I will get up now, and go about the city; In the streets and in the squares I will seek him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn't find him.

³ The watchmen who go about the city found me; "Have you seen him whom my soul loves?"

⁴ I had scarcely passed from them, When I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not let him go, Until I had brought him into my mother's house, Into the chamber of her who conceived me.

¹⁵ I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, And seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly."

¹² It happened in these days, that he went out to the mountain to pray, and he continued all night in prayer to God.

¹³ In 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.

³⁵ Early in the night, he rose up and went out, and departed into a deserted place, and prayed there.

⁶ Seek you Yahweh while he may be found; call you on him while he is near:

⁹ Therefore by this shall the iniquity of Jacob 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 sunder, [so that] the Asherim and the sun-images shall rise no more.

¹¹ So that men shall say, "Most assuredly there is a reward for the righteous. Most assuredly there is a God who judges the earth."

⁶ When I remember you on my bed, And think about you in the night watches.

⁷ For you have been my help. I will rejoice in the shadow of your wings.

⁹ All mankind shall be afraid. They shall declare the work of God, And shall wisely ponder what he has done.

² In 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.

³ I remember God, and I groan. I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed. Selah.

³⁴ When he killed them, then they inquired after him. They returned and sought God earnestly.

¹⁸ That they may know that you alone, whose name is Yahweh, Are the Most High over all the earth.

⁶ My soul longs for the Lord more than watchmen long for the morning; More than watchmen for the morning.

² I 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, My hair with the dampness of the night.

³ I have taken off my robe. Indeed, must I put it on? I have washed my feet. Indeed, must I soil them?

⁴ My beloved thrust his hand in through the latch opening. My heart pounded for him.

⁵ I rose up to open for my beloved. My hands dripped with myrrh, My fingers with liquid myrrh, On the handles of the lock.

⁶ I opened to my beloved; But my beloved left; gone away. My heart went out when he spoke. I looked for him, but I didn't find him. I called him, but he didn't answer.

⁷ The watchmen who go about the city found me. They beat me. They bruised me. The keepers of the walls took my cloak away from me.

⁸ I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, If you find my beloved, That you tell him that I am faint with love. Friends

²¹ but in very deed, as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with the glory of Yahweh;

²² because all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;

²³ surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any of those who despised me see it: