Isaiah 26:9

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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  • Ps 63:1 : 1 [A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah]. O God, thou art my God; earnestly will I seek thee: My soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee, In a dry and weary land, where no water is.
  • Matt 6:33 : 33 But seek ye first his kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
  • Luke 6:12 : 12 And it came to pass in these days, that he went out into the mountain to pray; and he continued all night in prayer to God.
  • Rev 11:13 : 13 And in that hour there was a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell; and there were killed in the earthquake seven thousand persons: and the rest were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.
  • Prov 8:17 : 17 I love them that love me; And those that seek me diligently shall find me.
  • Song 3:1-4 : 1 By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not. 2 [ I said], I will rise now, and go about the city; In the streets and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not. 3 The watchmen that go about the city found me; [To whom I said], Saw ye him whom my soul loveth? 4 It was but a little that I passed from them, When I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, Until I had brought him into my mother's house, And into the chamber of her that conceived me.
  • Ps 119:62 : 62 At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee Because of thy righteous ordinances.
  • Hos 5:15 : 15 I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me earnestly.
  • Ps 130:6 : 6 My soul [waiteth] for the Lord More than watchmen [wait] for the morning; [Yea, more than] watchmen for the morning.
  • Num 14:21-23 : 21 but in very deed, as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with the glory of Jehovah; 22 because all those men that have seen my glory, and my signs, which I wrought in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice; 23 surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that despised me see it:
  • Ps 58:11 : 11 So that men shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: Verily there is a God that judgeth in the earth.
  • Ps 63:6-7 : 6 When I remember thee upon my bed, [And] meditate on thee in the night-watches. 7 For thou hast been my help, And in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice.
  • Ps 64:9 : 9 And all men shall fear; And they shall declare the work of God, And shall wisely consider of his doing.
  • Ps 77:2-3 : 2 In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: My hand was stretched out in the night, and slacked not; My soul refused to be comforted. 3 I remember God, and am disquieted: I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed. {{Selah
  • Ps 78:34 : 34 When he slew them, then they inquired after him; And they returned and sought God earnestly.
  • Ps 83:18 : 18 That they may know that thou alone, whose name is Jehovah, Art the Most High over all the earth.
  • Song 5:2-8 : 2 I was asleep, but my heart waked: It is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, [saying], Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; For my head is filled with dew, My locks with the drops of the night. 3 I have put off my garment; How shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them? 4 My beloved put in his hand by the hole [of the door], And my heart was moved for him. 5 I rose up to open to my beloved; And my hands dropped with myrrh, And my fingers with liquid myrrh, Upon the handles of the bolt. 6 I opened to my beloved; But my beloved had withdrawn himself, [and] was gone. My soul had failed me when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer. 7 The watchmen that go about the city found me, They smote me, they wounded me; The keepers of the walls took away my mantle from me. 8 I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, If ye find my beloved, That ye tell him, that I am sick from love.
  • Isa 27:9 : 9 Therefore by this shall the iniquity of Jacob be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, [so that] the Asherim and the sun-images shall rise no more.
  • Isa 55:6 : 6 Seek ye Jehovah while he may be found; call ye upon him while he is near:
  • Mark 1:35 : 35 And in the morning, a great while before day, he rose up and went out, and departed into a desert place, and there prayed.

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  • 8Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O Jehovah, have we waited for thee; to thy name, even to thy memorial [name], is the desire of our soul.

  • 20My soul breaketh for the longing That it hath unto thine ordinances at all times.

  • 1[A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah]. O God, thou art my God; earnestly will I seek thee: My soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee, In a dry and weary land, where no water is.

  • 40Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: Quicken me in thy righteousness.

  • 2My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of Jehovah; My heart and my flesh cry out unto the living God.

  • Ps 130:5-6
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    5I wait for Jehovah, my soul doth wait, And in his word do I hope.

    6My soul [waiteth] for the Lord More than watchmen [wait] for the morning; [Yea, more than] watchmen for the morning.

  • 8[ When thou saidst], Seek ye my face; My heart said unto thee, Thy face, Jehovah, will I seek.

  • 1By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.

  • 10With my whole heart have I sought thee: Oh let me not wander from thy commandments.

  • 6I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart; And my spirit maketh diligent search.

  • 6I spread forth my hands unto thee: My soul [thirsteth] after thee, as a weary land. {{Selah

  • 62At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee Because of thy righteous ordinances.

  • 2In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: My hand was stretched out in the night, and slacked not; My soul refused to be comforted.

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    3O Jehovah, in the morning shalt thou hear my voice; In the morning will I order [my prayer] unto thee, and will keep watch.

  • Ps 42:1-2
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    1[For the Chief Musician. Maschil of the sons of Korah]. As the hart panteth after the water brooks, So panteth my soul after thee, O God.

    2My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: When shall I come and appear before God?

  • 7I will give thanks unto thee with uprightness of heart, When I learn thy righteous judgments.

  • 6When I remember thee upon my bed, [And] meditate on thee in the night-watches.

  • 8Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning; For in thee do I trust: Cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; For I lift up my soul unto thee.

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    148Mine eyes anticipated the night-watches, That I might meditate on thy word.

    149Hear my voice according unto thy lovingkindness: Quicken me, O Jehovah, according to thine ordinances.

  • 13But unto thee, O Jehovah, have I cried; And in the morning shall my prayer come before thee.

  • Ps 17:2-3
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    2Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; Let thine eyes look upon equity.

    3Thou hast proved my heart; Thou hast visited me in the night; Thou hast tried me, and findest nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.

  • 156Great are thy tender mercies, O Jehovah: Quicken me according to thine ordinances.

  • 25Whom have I in heaven [but thee] ? And there is none upon earth that I desire besides thee.

  • 108Accept, I beseech thee, the freewill-offerings of my mouth, O Jehovah, And teach me thine ordinances.

  • 25DALETH. My soul cleaveth unto the dust: Quicken thou me according to thy word.

  • 8My soul followeth hard after thee: Thy right hand upholdeth me.

  • 9Lord, all my desire is before thee; And my groaning is not hid from thee.

  • 15As for me, I shall behold thy face in righteousness; I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with [beholding] thy form.

  • 1Righteous art thou, O Jehovah, when I contend with thee; yet would I reason the cause with thee: wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they at ease that deal very treacherously?

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    174I have longed for thy salvation, O Jehovah; And thy law is my delight.

    175Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee; And let thine ordinances help me.

  • 2Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways: as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God, they ask of me righteous judgments; they delight to draw near unto God.

  • 4One thing have I asked of Jehovah, that will I seek after; That I may dwell in the house of Jehovah all the days of my life, To behold the beauty of Jehovah, And to inquire in his temple.

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    8Jehovah ministereth judgment to the peoples: Judge me, O Jehovah, according to my righteousness, and to mine integrity that is in me.

  • 1[A Psalm of David]. Hear my prayer, O Jehovah; Give ear to my supplications: In thy faithfulness answer me, [and] in thy righteousness.

  • 10Let favor be showed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness; in the land of uprightness will he deal wrongfully, and will not behold the majesty of Jehovah.

  • 9I will bear the indignation of Jehovah, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, [and] I shall behold his righteousness.

  • 11Quicken me, O Jehovah, for thy name's sake: In thy righteousness bring my soul out of trouble.

  • 8[ Yet] Jehovah will command his lovingkindness in the day-time; And in the night his song shall be with me, [Even] a prayer unto the God of my life.

  • 7I will bless Jehovah, who hath given me counsel; Yea, my heart instructeth me in the night seasons.

  • 1[[ A Psalm] of David]. Judge me, O Jehovah, for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also in Jehovah without wavering.

  • 120My flesh trembleth for fear of thee; And I am afraid of thy judgments.

  • 16As for me, I have not hastened from being a shepherd after thee; neither have I desired the woeful day; thou knowest: that which came out of my lips was before thy face.

  • 164Seven times a day do I praise thee, Because of thy righteous ordinances.

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    6Arise, O Jehovah, in thine anger; Lift up thyself against the rage of mine adversaries, And awake for me; thou hast commanded judgment.

  • 9Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah, for I am in distress: Mine eye wasteth away with grief, [yea], my soul and my body.