Isaiah 26:9

World English Bible (2000)

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.

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  • Ps 63:1 : 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.
  • Matt 6:33 : 33 But seek first God's Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.
  • Luke 6:12 : 12 It happened in these days, that he went out to the mountain to pray, and he continued all night in prayer to God.
  • Rev 11:13 : 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.
  • Prov 8:17 : 17 I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.
  • Song 3:1-4 : 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 room of her who conceived me.
  • Ps 119:62 : 62 At midnight I will rise to give thanks to you, because of your righteous ordinances.
  • Hos 5:15 : 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."
  • Ps 130:6 : 6 My soul longs for the Lord more than watchmen long for the morning; 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 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:
  • Ps 58:11 : 11 so that men shall say, "Most certainly there is a reward for the righteous. Most certainly there is a God who judges the earth." For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Do Not Destroy." A poem by David, when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him.
  • Ps 63:6-7 : 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.
  • Ps 64:9 : 9 All mankind shall be afraid. They shall declare the work of God, and shall wisely ponder what he has done.
  • Ps 77:2-3 : 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.
  • Ps 78:34 : 34 When he killed them, then they inquired after him. They returned and sought God earnestly.
  • Ps 83:18 : 18 that they may know that you alone, whose name is Yahweh, are the Most High over all the earth. For the Chief Musician. On an instrument of Gath. A Psalm by the sons of Korah.
  • Song 5:2-8 : 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, and 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; and had 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
  • Isa 27:9 : 9 Therefore, by this the iniquity of Jacob will 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 pieces, so that the Asherim and the incense altars shall rise no more.
  • Isa 55:6 : 6 Seek Yahweh while he may be found; call you on him while he is near:
  • Mark 1:35 : 35 Early in the morning, while it was still dark, he rose up and went out, and departed into a deserted place, and prayed there.

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  • 8 Yes, in the way of your judgments, Yahweh, have we waited for you. Your name and your renown are the desire of our soul.

  • 20 My soul is consumed with longing for your ordinances at all times.

  • 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.

  • 40 Behold, I long for your precepts! Revive me in your righteousness. WAW

  • 2 My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of Yahweh. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

  • Ps 130:5-6
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    5 I wait for Yahweh. My soul waits. I hope in his word.

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

  • 8 When you said, "Seek my face," my heart said to you, "I will seek your face, Yahweh."

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

  • 10 With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don't let me wander from your commandments.

  • 6 I remember my song in the night. I consider in my own heart; my spirit diligently inquires:

  • 6 I spread forth my hands to you. My soul thirsts for you, like a parched land. Selah.

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

  • 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.

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    3 Yahweh, in the morning you shall hear my voice. In the morning I will lay my requests before you, and will watch expectantly.

  • Ps 42:1-2
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    1 As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, God.

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

  • 7 I will give thanks to you with uprightness of heart, when I learn your righteous judgments.

  • 6 when I remember you on my bed, and think about you in the night watches.

  • 8 Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.

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    148 My eyes stay open through the night watches, that I might meditate on your word.

    149 Hear my voice according to your loving kindness. Revive me, Yahweh, according to your ordinances.

  • 13 But to you, Yahweh, I have cried. In the morning, my prayer comes before you.

  • Ps 17:2-3
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    2 Let my sentence come forth from your presence. Let your eyes look on equity.

    3 You have proved my heart. You have visited me in the night. You have tried me, and found nothing. I have resolved that my mouth shall not disobey.

  • 156 Great are your tender mercies, Yahweh. Revive me according to your ordinances.

  • 25 Who do I have in heaven? There is no one on earth who I desire besides you.

  • 108 Accept, I beg you, the willing offerings of my mouth. Yahweh, teach me your ordinances.

  • 25 My soul is laid low in the dust. Revive me according to your word!

  • 8 My soul stays close to you. Your right hand holds me up.

  • 9 Lord, all my desire is before you. My groaning is not hidden from you.

  • 15 As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form. For the Chief Musician. By David the servant of Yahweh, who spoke to Yahweh the words of this song in the day that Yahweh delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. He said,

  • 1 You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would reason the cause with you: why does the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they at ease who deal very treacherously?

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    174 I have longed for your salvation, Yahweh. Your law is my delight.

    175 Let my soul live, that I may praise you. Let your ordinances help me.

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

  • 4 One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after, that I may dwell in the house of Yahweh all the days of my life, to see Yahweh's beauty, and to inquire in his temple.

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    8 Yahweh administers judgment to the peoples. Judge me, Yahweh, according to my righteousness, and to my integrity that is in me.

  • 1 Hear my prayer, Yahweh. Listen to my petitions. In your faithfulness and righteousness, relieve me.

  • 10 Let favor be shown to the wicked, yet he will not learn righteousness. In the land of uprightness he will deal wrongfully, and will not see Yahweh's majesty.

  • 9 I will bear the indignation of Yahweh, because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my case, and executes judgment for me. He will bring me forth to the light. I will see his righteousness.

  • 11 Revive me, Yahweh, for your name's sake. In your righteousness, bring my soul out of trouble.

  • 8 Yahweh will command his loving kindness in the daytime. In the night his song shall be with me: a prayer to the God of my life.

  • 7 I will bless Yahweh, who has given me counsel. Yes, my heart instructs me in the night seasons.

  • 1 Judge me, Yahweh, for I have walked in my integrity. I have trusted also in Yahweh without wavering.

  • 120 My flesh trembles for fear of you. I am afraid of your judgments. AYIN

  • 16 As for me, I have not hurried from being a shepherd after you; neither have I desired the woeful day; you know: that which came out of my lips was before your face.

  • 164 Seven times a day, I praise you, because of your righteous ordinances.

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    6 Arise, Yahweh, in your anger. Lift up yourself against the rage of my adversaries. Awake for me. You have commanded judgment.

  • 9 Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.