And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.
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Jeremiah 29:11-15
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown (1871) (public domain).
(Lev 26:40-42, Lev 26:44-45).
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But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul. When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the LORD thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his voice; (For the LORD thy God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them.
Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart.
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:
With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.
And I will give them an heart to know me, that I am the LORD: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart.
Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:
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