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Psalm 27:8
When you said, “Seek my face,” my heart said to you, “I will seek your face, LORD.”
6Now my head will be lifted up above my enemies around me. I will offer sacrifices of joy in his tent. I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the LORD.
7Hear, LORD, when I cry with my voice. Have mercy also on me, and answer me.
8When you said, “Seek my face,” my heart said to you, “I will seek your face, LORD.”
9Don’t hide your face from me. Don’t put your servant away in anger. You have been my help. Don’t abandon me, neither forsake me, God of my salvation.
10When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.
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“Seek my face” receives an answer from the heart, making the desire for God a response to words he has spoken.
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Luke 11:9“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.Seeking links these passages: the psalm answers God's command, and Jesus joins continued seeking with a promise of finding.
Isaiah 55:6Seek the LORD while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.Both passages speak of seeking the LORD, with Isaiah urging people to call on him while he is near.
Psalm 105:4Seek the LORD and his strength. Seek his face forever more.Both passages use seeking God's face to express the pursuit of God, and Psalm 105 extends that pursuit forever.
Jeremiah 29:12–13You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.Both passages connect God's speech with a human response: the heart answers in the psalm, and Jeremiah speaks of prayer.
Matthew 7:7“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.Both passages speak of seeking; the psalm records the heart's resolve, while Jesus promises that those who seek will find.
Psalm 27:4One thing I have asked of the LORD, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in the LORD’s house all the days of my life, to see the LORD’s beauty, and to …Both verses express a resolve to seek the LORD, with verse 4 describing a desire to dwell in his house.
Psalm 119:58I sought your favor with my whole heart. Be merciful to me according to your word.The heart is involved in seeking God in both verses, through a spoken resolve here and a plea for favor there.
Psalm 24:6This is the generation of those who seek Him, who seek your face—even Jacob. Selah.Seeking God's face is the shared phrase, describing one heart's answer here and a whole generation in Psalm 24.
Hosea 5:15I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly.”Seeking God's face appears in both passages; Hosea places that seeking amid affliction and acknowledgment of offense.
Lamentations 3:25The LORD is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.Both passages describe seeking the LORD, and Lamentations declares his goodness to the soul who seeks him.
Isaiah 45:19I 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, the LORD, speak righteousness. I …God speaks about seeking him in both passages, and Isaiah makes clear that he has not commanded a vain search.
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Your resolve to seek God can coexist with a plea that he will not hide his face. The heart answers while help is still needed.
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