if they turn their hearts back to you in the land where they have been taken captive, repent, and pray to you even if they do so in the land of their captivity confessing, "We have sinned, we have committed abominations, and practiced wickedness,'

Call on me in the day of distress; I will deliver you, and you will glorify me."

When he calls out to me, I will answer him. I will be with him in his distress. I will deliver him, and I will honor him.

The LORD remains near to all who call out to him, to everyone who calls out to him sincerely.

"Seek the LORD while he may be found, call upon him while he is near.

Before they call, I will answer, while they are still speaking, I'll hear.

And everyone who calls upon the name of the LORD will be delivered. For as the LORD has said, "In Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be those who escape, the survivors whom the LORD is calling.'"

So I say to you: Keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep searching, and you will find. Keep knocking, and the door will be opened for you,

Then whoever calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.'

There is no difference between Jew and Greek, because they all have the same Lord, who gives richly to all who call on him.

To: God's church in Corinth, to those who have been sanctified by the Messiah Jesus and called to be holy, together with all those everywhere who call on the name of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah their Lord and ours.

Shew

As I did when you came out of the land of Egypt, I will show you awesome things.

Now to the one who can do infinitely more than all we can ask or imagine according to the power that is working among us

Mighty

The intimate counsel of the LORD is for those who fear him so they may know his covenant.

I'll give you concealed treasures and riches hidden in secret places, so that you'll know that it is I, the LORD, the God of Israel, who calls you by name.

"You have heard now look at them all! How can you not admit them? From now on, I'll make you hear new things, hidden things that you have not known.

"Truly the Lord GOD will do nothing he has mentioned without revealing his purposes to his servants the prophets.

This was to fulfill what was declared by the prophet when he said, "I will open my mouth to speak in parables. I will declare what has been hidden since the creation of the world."

Instead, we speak about God's wisdom in a hidden secret, which God destined before the world began for our glory.

"Let everyone listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers I will give some of the hidden manna. I will also give him a white stone. On the white stone is written a new name that no one knows except the person who receives it.'"

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Yet when they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, he delivered them from certain destruction.

When you call out to me and come and pray to me, I'll hear you.