100 Bible Verses About Seeking God

In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.

Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the Lord God might dwell among them.

If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:

The Lord is far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous.

Who is like unto the Lord our God, who dwelleth on high,

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

Except the Lord of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.

I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of the Lord.

If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;

Surely thou hast spoken in mine hearing, and I have heard the voice of thy words, saying,

I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as much as in all riches.

Then shalt thou go on forward from thence, and thou shalt come to the plain of Tabor, and there shall meet thee three men going up to God to Beth–el, one carrying three kids, and another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a bottle of wine:

And he sought Ahaziah: and they caught him, (for he was hid in Samaria,) and brought him to Jehu: and when they had slain him, they buried him: Because, said they, he is the son of Jehoshaphat, who sought the Lord with all his heart. So the house of Ahaziah had no power to keep still the kingdom.

Seek the Lord, and his strength: seek his face evermore.

Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O Lord, I am oppressed; undertake for me.

Gracious is the Lord, and righteous; yea, our God is merciful.

Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;

And Samuel said, Gather all Israel to Mizpeh, and I will pray for you unto the Lord.

At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.

And Moses was not able to enter into the tent of the congregation, because the cloud abode thereon, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.

And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but have poured out my soul before the Lord.

Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord God of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.

The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.

And he said unto him, We are passing from Beth–lehem–judah toward the side of mount Ephraim; from thence am I: and I went to Beth–lehem–judah, but I am now going to the house of the Lord; and there is no man that receiveth me to house.

The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.

The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.

For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether.

Lord, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:

Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer unto his God, and the words of the seers that spake to him in the name of the Lord God of Israel, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel.

Great are thy tender mercies, O Lord: quicken me according to thy judgments.

Lord, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?

But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.

Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;

Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted,

Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine: the upright love thee.

And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep.

Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am the first, I also am the last.

And this man went up out of his city yearly to worship and to sacrifice unto the Lord of hosts in Shiloh. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, the priests of the Lord, were there.

And the children of Israel, which were come again out of captivity, and all such as had separated themselves unto them from the filthiness of the heathen of the land, to seek the Lord God of Israel, did eat,

David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night upon the earth.

For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, Lord, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.

The Lord will give strength unto his people; the Lord will bless his people with peace.

O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely.

And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of the Lord; and they shall be afraid of thee.

And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.

Thou art near, O Lord; and all thy commandments are truth.

For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.

Ask thee a sign of the Lord thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.

But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.

How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!

Turn us again, O Lord God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.

The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; and thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.

For thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?

And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was.

Art thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over?

My beloved is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the lilies.

Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.

Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God.

Good and upright is the Lord: therefore will he teach sinners in the way.

Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent unto Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Whereas thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria:

And let us arise, and go up to Beth–el; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.

I sought the Lord, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.

He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.

An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee.

I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:

As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.

And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the Lord.

I cried with my whole heart; hear me, O Lord: I will keep thy statutes.

Behold, that thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the Lord.

The Lord is in his holy temple, the Lord’s throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.

And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:

And Gideon said unto him, Oh my Lord, if the Lord be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where be all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the Lord bring us up from Egypt? but now the Lord hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.

Thou shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shalt suck the breast of kings: and thou shalt know that I the Lord am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.

For who is God, save the Lord? and who is a rock, save our God?

Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst.

Mountains, and all hills; fruitful trees, and all cedars:

Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?

Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.

Sihon king of the Amorites: for his mercy endureth for ever:

Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent unto the prayer that is made in this place.

How long, Lord? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?

And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tables of stone.

And thou shalt make an altar to burn incense upon: of shittim wood shalt thou make it.

Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.

Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?

Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.

Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.

And the Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?

And when he looked behind him, he saw me, and called unto me. And I answered, Here am I.

And they removed from Almon–diblathaim, and pitched in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo.

And he said, Lord God of Israel, there is no God like thee, in heaven above, or on earth beneath, who keepest covenant and mercy with thy servants that walk before thee with all their heart:

Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.

And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts.

Who can discover the face of his garment? or who can come to him with his double bridle?

I waited patiently for the Lord; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.

For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.