Jeremiah 5:1
"Roam about through the streets of Jerusalem, and look please, and take note, and search at its public squares, if you can find a person [who] does justice, [who] seeks honesty, so that I may forgive it.
2 Chronicles 16:9
For the eyes of Yahweh roam throughout all the earth to strengthen those whose heart is fully devoted to him. You have been foolish in this, for from now on you will have wars."
Ezekiel 22:30
And [so] I sought for them somebody, one repairing [the] wall and standing in the breach {before me} on behalf of the land not to destroy it, but I did not find [anyone],
Genesis 18:23-32
And Abraham drew near [to Yahweh] and said, "Will you also sweep away the righteous with the wicked?
Daniel 12:4
But you, Daniel, keep the words secret and seal the scroll until [the] time of [the] end; many will run back and forth and knowledge will increase."
1 Kings 19:10
Then he said, "I have been very zealous for Yahweh the God of hosts, for the {Israelites} have forsaken your covenant. They have demolished your altars, and they have killed your prophets with the sword. I alone am left over, and they seek to take my life.
Psalm 12:1
Save, O Yahweh, for [the] pious have ceased [to be]; for [the] faithful have vanished from [among the] children of humankind.
Psalm 14:3
All have gone astray; they are altogether corrupt. There is not one who does good; there is not even one.
Psalm 53:2-4
God looks down from heaven upon the children of humankind to see whether there is one who has insight, one who seeks God.
Proverbs 2:4-6
if you seek her like silver and search her out {like treasure},
Proverbs 8:3
Beside gates, before towns, [at the] entrance of doors, she cries out:
Proverbs 20:6
Many a person will proclaim his loyalty [for] himself, but a man [who is] trustworthy, who can find?
Proverbs 23:23
Buy truth and do not sell [it], wisdom and instruction and understanding.
Song of Songs 3:2
Now I will arise, and I will go about in the city, in the streets and in the squares; I will seek him whom my {heart} loves. I sought him, but I did not find him.
Isaiah 59:4
There is nobody {who pleads with} justice, and there is nobody who judges with honesty. They rely on nothing and speak vanity. They conceive trouble and beget iniquity;
Isaiah 59:14-15
And justice is pushed back, and righteousness stands afar; for truth stumbles in the public square, and straightforwardness is unable to enter,
Joel 2:9
In the city they rush forth; on the walls they run. Into the houses they climb up; through the windows they enter like thief.
Amos 8:12
And they will wander from sea to sea and from [the] north and to [the] east. They will roam about to seek the word of Yahweh, but they will not find [it]!
Micah 7:1-2
Woe is me! For I have become like the gatherings of summer, like the gleanings of the grape harvest, [when] there is no cluster of grapes to eat [or] early ripened fruit [that] my soul desires.
Zechariah 2:4
And he said to him, "Run, say to that young man, 'Jerusalem shall be inhabited {like villages without walls} because of the multitude of people and animals in its midst.
Luke 14:21
And the slave came [and] reported these [things] to his master. Then the master of the house became angry [and] said to his slave, 'Go out quickly into the streets and alleys of the city and bring in here the poor and crippled and blind and lame!'
2 Thessalonians 2:10
and with every unrighteous deception against those who are perishing, in place of which they did not accept the love of the truth, so that they would be saved.