11 translations · Hebrew
Isaiah 55:6
Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.
Isaiah 55:6 in 11 translations
- WEB World English Bible
- Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.
- KJV King James Version
- Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.
- ASV American Standard Version
- Seek ye Jehovah while he may be found; call ye upon him while he is near:
- LSV Literal Standard Version
- Seek YHWH while He may be found, || Call Him while He is near,
- FBV Free Bible Version
- Look for the Lord while you can still find him; call out to him while he's nearby.
- YLT Young’s Literal Translation
- Seek ye Jehovah, while He is found, Call ye Him, while He is near,
- DBY Darby Translation
- Seek ye Jehovah while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near.
- WBT Webster’s Bible
- Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:
- WEBC World English Bible (Catholic)
- Seek the LORD while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.
- DRA Douay-Rheims 1899
- Seek ye the Lord, while he may be found: call upon him, while he is near.
The Hebrew words
Each word of the Hebrew text in order, with its transliteration, the Berean Standard Bible’s English for it, and its Strong’s number and short definition.
| Word | Transliteration | English (BSB) | Strong’s |
|---|---|---|---|
| דִּרְשׁ֥וּ | dir·šū | Seek | H1875 דָּרַשׁ to seek |
| יְהוָ֖ה | Yah·weh | the LORD | H3068 יְהֹוָה LORD |
| בְּהִמָּצְא֑וֹ | bə·him·mā·ṣə·’ōw | while He may be found | H4672 מָצָא to find |
| קְרָאֻ֖הוּ | qə·rā·’u·hū | call on Him | H7121 קָרָא to call: call to |
| בִּֽהְיוֹת֥וֹ | bih·yō·w·ṯōw | while He is | H1961 הָיָה to be |
| קָרֽוֹב׃ | qā·rō·wḇ | near | H7138 קָרֹב near |
Related verses
- Jeremiah 29:12–14
You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You shall seek me, and find me, when you search for me with all your heart. I will be found by you,” says Yahweh, “and I will turn again your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places where I have driven you, says Yahweh. I will bring you again to the place from where I caused you to be carried away captive.”
- Psalm 145:18
Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.
- Isaiah 45:19
I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness. I didn’t say to the offspring of Jacob, ‘Seek me in vain.’ I, Yahweh, speak righteousness. I declare things that are right.
- Psalm 32:6
For this, let everyone who is godly pray to you in a time when you may be found. Surely when the great waters overflow, they shall not reach to him.
- Psalm 14:2
Yahweh looked down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who understood, who sought after God.
- Isaiah 65:24
It will happen that, before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
- Matthew 7:7–8
“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you. For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.
- 2 Corinthians 6:1–2
Working together, we entreat also that you do not receive the grace of God in vain, for he says, “At an acceptable time I listened to you, in a day of salvation I helped you.” Behold, now is the acceptable time. Behold, now is the day of salvation.
- Amos 5:6
Seek Yahweh, and you will live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, and there be no one to quench it in Bethel.
- Psalm 27:8
When you said, “Seek my face,” my heart said to you, “I will seek your face, Yahweh.”
Cross references from OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0, most-voted first; text from the World English Bible.
In context
4 Behold, I have given him for a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander to the peoples.
5 Behold, you shall call a nation that you don’t know; and a nation that didn’t know you shall run to you, because of Yahweh your God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he has glorified you.”
6 Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.
7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for he will freely pardon.
8 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways,” says Yahweh.
Read all of Isaiah 55 in the World English Bible.
Edition and source notes
Each translation is shown as its source prints it, in its own verse numbering; where an edition numbers this verse differently, its own reference is given. The World English Bible, King James Version and Berean Standard Bible link to their chapter pages. Edition notes.
Literal Standard Version (2020) © Covenant Press and the Covenant Christian Coalition, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license. Free Bible Version (2018) © Dr. Jonathan Gallagher, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license.
The original words and their English come from the Berean Standard Bible translation tables (public domain); lemmas and short definitions from STEPBible (CC BY 4.0), with Greek definitions based on Abbott-Smith.
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