Amos 5:4

In 11 translations

BSB

For this is what the LORD says to the house of Israel: “Seek Me and live!

KJV

¶ For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:

WEB

For Yahweh says to the house of Israel: “Seek me, and you will live;

ASV

For thus saith Jehovah unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live;

LSV

For thus said YHWH to the house of Israel: “Seek Me, and live,

YLT

For thus said Jehovah to the house of Israel: Seek ye Me, and live,

DBY

For thus saith Jehovah unto the house of Israel: Seek ye me, and ye shall live.

DRC

For thus saith the Lord to the house of Israel: Seek ye me, and you shall live.

GNV

For thus saith the Lord vnto the house of Israel, Seeke ye me, and ye shall liue.

JPS

For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel: Seek ye Me, and live;

LXXE

Wherefore thus saith the Lord to the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live.

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Original-language editions

WLC

כִּ֣י כֹ֥ה אָמַ֛ר יְהוָ֖ה לְבֵ֣ית יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל דִּרְשׁ֖וּנִי וִֽחְיֽוּ׃

LXX-Br

Διότι τάδε λέγει Κύριος πρὸς τὸν οἶκον Ἰσραὴλ, ἐκζητήσατέ με, καὶ ζήσεσθε.

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Cross-references most cited first

• Zephaniah 2:3Seek the LORD, all you humble of the earth who carry out His justice. Seek righteousness; seek humility. Perhaps you will be sheltered on the day of the LORD’s anger.
• Jeremiah 29:12–13Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.
• 2 Chronicles 15:2So he went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Listen to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin. The LORD is with you when you are with Him. If you seek Him, He will be found by you, but if you forsake Him, He will forsake…
• Isaiah 55:3Incline your ear and come to Me; listen, so that your soul may live. I will make with you an everlasting covenant— My loving devotion promised to David.
• Psalms 14:2The LORD looks down from heaven upon the sons of men to see if any understand, if any seek God.
• Matthew 7:8For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.
• Psalms 105:3–4Glory in His holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the LORD rejoice. Seek out the LORD and His strength; seek His face always.
• Isaiah 55:6–7Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near. Let the wicked man forsake his own way and the unrighteous man his own thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that He may have compassion, and to our…
• 1 Chronicles 28:9As for you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve Him wholeheartedly and with a willing mind, for the LORD searches every heart and understands the intent of every thought. If you seek Him, He will be…
• Lamentations 3:25–26The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him. It is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD.
• Deuteronomy 30:1–8“When all these things come upon you—the blessings and curses I have set before you—and you call them to mind in all the nations to which the LORD your God has banished you, and when you and your children return to the…
• 2 Chronicles 20:3Jehoshaphat was alarmed and set his face to seek the LORD. And he proclaimed a fast throughout Judah.
• 2 Chronicles 34:3In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, Josiah began to seek the God of his father David, and in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherah poles, the…
• Amos 5:6Seek the LORD and live, or He will sweep like fire through the house of Joseph; it will devour everything, with no one at Bethel to extinguish it.
• Psalms 69:32The humble will see and rejoice. You who seek God, let your hearts be revived!
• Psalms 22:26The poor will eat and be satisfied; those who seek the LORD will praise Him. May your hearts live forever!

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