Hosea 5:15
I will return again to my place, until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face, and in their distress earnestly seek me.
Psalm 78:34
When he killed them, they sought him; they repented and sought God earnestly.
Isaiah 26:16
O LORD, in distress they sought you; they poured out a whispered prayer when your discipline was upon them.
Jeremiah 2:27
who say to a tree, 'You are my father,' and to a stone, 'You gave me birth.' For they have turned their back to me, and not their face. But in the time of their trouble they say, 'Arise and save us!'
Leviticus 26:40-42
"But if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers in their treachery that they committed against me, and also in walking contrary to me,
Psalm 50:15
and call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me."
Jeremiah 3:13
Only acknowledge your guilt, that you rebelled against the LORD your God and scattered your favors among foreigners under every green tree, and that you have not obeyed my voice, declares the LORD.
Ezekiel 6:9
then those of you who escape will remember me among the nations where they are carried captive, how I have been broken over their whoring heart that has departed from me and over their eyes that go whoring after their idols. And they will be loathsome in their own sight for the evils that they have committed, for all their abominations.
Exodus 25:21-22
And you shall put the mercy seat on the top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the testimony that I shall give you.
Deuteronomy 4:29-31
But from there you will seek the LORD your God and you will find him, if you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.
Deuteronomy 30:1-3
"And when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you call them to mind among all the nations where the LORD your God has driven you,
Judges 4:3
Then the people of Israel cried out to the LORD for help, for he had chariots of iron and he oppressed the people of Israel cruelly for twenty years.
Judges 6:6-7
And Israel was brought very low because of Midian. And the people of Israel cried out for help to the LORD.
Judges 10:10-16
And the people of Israel cried out to the LORD, saying, "We have sinned against you, because we have forsaken our God and have served the Baals."
1 Kings 8:10-13
And when the priests came out of the Holy Place, a cloud filled the house of the LORD,
1 Kings 8:47-48
yet if they turn their heart in the land to which they have been carried captive, and repent and plead with you in the land of their captors, saying, 'We have sinned and have acted perversely and wickedly,'
2 Chronicles 6:36-37
"If they sin against you--for there is no one who does not sin--and you are angry with them and give them to an enemy, so that they are carried away captive to a land far or near,
2 Chronicles 7:14
if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
2 Chronicles 33:12-13
And when he was in distress, he entreated the favor of the LORD his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.
Nehemiah 1:8-9
Remember the word that you commanded your servant Moses, saying, 'If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the peoples,
Job 27:8-10
For what is the hope of the godless when God cuts him off, when God takes away his life?
Job 33:27
He sings before men and says: 'I sinned and perverted what was right, and it was not repaid to me.
Psalm 83:16
Fill their faces with shame, that they may seek your name, O LORD.
Psalm 132:14
"This is my resting place forever; here I will dwell, for I have desired it.
Proverbs 1:27-28
when terror strikes you like a storm and your calamity comes like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come upon you.
Proverbs 8:17
I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently find me.
Isaiah 26:9
My soul yearns for you in the night; my spirit within me earnestly seeks you. For when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
Isaiah 26:21
For behold, the LORD is coming out from his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity, and the earth will disclose the blood shed on it, and will no more cover its slain.
Isaiah 64:5-9
You meet him who joyfully works righteousness, those who remember you in your ways. Behold, you were angry, and we sinned; in our sins we have been a long time, and shall we be saved?
Jeremiah 29:12-14
Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you.
Jeremiah 31:18-20
I have heard Ephraim grieving, 'You have disciplined me, and I was disciplined, like an untrained calf; bring me back that I may be restored, for you are the LORD my God.
Ezekiel 8:6
And he said to me, "Son of man, do you see what they are doing, the great abominations that the house of Israel are committing here, to drive me far from my sanctuary? But you will see still greater abominations."
Ezekiel 10:4
And the glory of the LORDwent up from the cherub to the threshold of the house, and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was filled with the brightness of the glory of the LORD.
Ezekiel 11:23
And the glory of the LORD went up from the midst of the city and stood on the mountain that is on the east side of the city.
Ezekiel 20:43
And there you shall remember your ways and all your deeds with which you have defiled yourselves, and you shall loathe yourselves for all the evils that you have committed.
Ezekiel 36:31
Then you will remember your evil ways, and your deeds that were not good, and you will loathe yourselves for your iniquities and your abominations.
Daniel 9:4-12
I prayed to the LORD my God and made confession, saying, "O Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments,
Hosea 3:5
Afterward the children of Israel shall return and seek the LORD their God, and David their king, and they shall come in fear to the LORD and to his goodness in the latter days.
Hosea 5:6
With their flocks and herds they shall go to seek the LORD, but they will not find him; he has withdrawn from them.
Hosea 14:1-3
Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled because of your iniquity.
Micah 1:3
For behold, the LORD is coming out of his place, and will come down and tread upon the high places of the earth.
Zephaniah 2:1-3
Gather together, yes, gather, O shameless nation,
Luke 13:25
When once the master of the house has risen and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, 'Lord, open to us,' then he will answer you, 'I do not know where you come from.'