9 occurrences

'Seek' in the Bible

What -- dost thou make pleasing thy ways to seek love? Therefore even the wicked thou hast taught thy ways.

Verse ConceptsSkillDegradationDecadenceMisteachingFinding Lovelovers

And thou, O spoiled one, what dost thou? For thou puttest on scarlet, For thou adornest thyself with ornaments of gold. For thou rendest with pain thine eyes, In vain thou dost make thyself fair, Kicked against thee have doting ones, Thy life they do seek.

Verse ConceptsCrimsonAdornment, Of WomenGoldCosmeticsRed ClothesUseless LabourAttempting To KillWearing Jewelleryloversmakeup

Go to and fro in streets of Jerusalem, And see, I pray you, and know, And seek in her broad places, if ye find a man, If there be one doing judgment, seeking stedfastness -- Then am I propitious to her.

Verse ConceptsBalances, Dishonest UseRoadsEvil TimesCitizenshipCity SquaresGod Will ForgiveFinding LoveGodly ManA Good ManBeing Singleseekingjerusalem

all loving thee have forgotten thee, Thee they do not seek, For with the stroke of an enemy I smote thee, The chastisement of a fierce one, Because of the abundance of thy iniquity, Mighty have been thy sins!

Verse ConceptsCruelty, God's attitude toChastisementNot Seeking PeopleForgetting PeopleWoundsFriends FailingGod As EnemyAll Have Sinned

'Thus said Jehovah, God of Israel, Thus do ye say unto the king of Judah, who is sending you unto Me, to seek Me: Lo, the force of Pharaoh that is coming out to you for help hath turned back to its land, to Egypt,

Verse ConceptsEarthly Armies

And thou -- thou seekest for thee great things -- do not seek, for lo, I am bringing in evil on all flesh -- an affirmation of Jehovah -- and I have given to thee thy life for a spoil, in all places whither thou goest.'

Verse ConceptsAmbition, negative aspects ofSearchingSelfishnessSeeking For Abstract ThingsGreat ThingsGod Will Bring HarmBeing Yourself

In those days, and at that time, An affirmation of Jehovah, Come in do sons of Israel, They and sons of Judah together, Going on and weeping they go, And Jehovah their God they seek.

Verse ConceptsLast DaysSeeking GodUnity, God's Goal OfWeepingPerspectivereuniting

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