‘ This is what the Lord God says:“ This too I will let the house of Israel ask Me to do for them: I will increase their people like a flock.

“主耶和华如此说：我要加增以色列家的人数，多如羊群。他们必为这事向我求问，我要给他们成就。

“主耶和华如此说：我要回应以色列家的求问，成全他们，增添他们的人数，使他们多如羊群。

“主耶和华如此说：我要回应以色列家的求问，成全他们，增添他们的人数，使他们多如羊群。

“主耶和华说，‘我要再次答应以色列人的恳求，使他们的人口增加，多如羊群。

“‘主耶和华这样说：我还要让以色列家求我为他们增加人数，多如羊群。

「主耶和華如此說：我要加增以色列家的人數，多如羊羣。他們必為這事向我求問，我要給他們成就。

「主耶和華如此說：我要回應以色列家的求問，成全他們，增添他們的人數，使他們多如羊羣。

「主耶和華如此說：我要回應以色列家的求問，成全他們，增添他們的人數，使他們多如羊羣。

「主耶和華說，『我要再次答應以色列人的懇求，使他們的人口增加，多如羊群。

“‘主耶和華這樣說：我還要讓以色列家求我為他們增加人數，多如羊群。

『主永恆主這麼說：對以下這事我還要讓自己受到以色列的求問，而為他們作成；以增多他們的人數、如同羊羣。

主耶和華曰、以色列家若求於我、我必允之、俾其生齒繁多、有若羊羣、

主耶和華曰、我雖令斯人、生齒眾多、若畜孳息、然以色列族要當求我、

主天主如是云、以色列族若求我使其人、多若群羊、此我亦允之、

“ This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Once again I will yield to Israel’s plea and do this for them: I will make their people as numerous as sheep,

The Lord and King says,“ Once again I will answer Israel’s prayer. Here is what I will do for them. I will multiply them as if they were sheep.

“ Thus says the Lord God: This also I will let the house of Israel ask me to do for them: to increase their people like a flock.

“ This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am ready to hear Israel’s prayers and to increase their numbers like a flock.

“‘ This is what the Lord GOD says: I will respond to the house of Israel and do this for them: I will multiply them in number like a flock.

‘ Thus says the Lord GOD:“ I will also let the house of Israel inquire of Me to do this for them: I will increase their men like a flock.

Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: For this, moreover, will I be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them: I will increase them with men like a flock.

“ This is what the Lord God says: I will respond to the house of Israel and do this for them: I will multiply them in number like a flock.

Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will yet[ for] this be enquired of by the house of Israel, to do[ it] for them; I will increase them with men like a flock.

“ This is what the sovereign LORD says: I will allow the house of Israel to ask me to do this for them: I will multiply their people like sheep.

“‘ The Lord Yahweh says:“ For this, moreover, I will be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them: I will increase them with men like a flock.

“ Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their hearts and have put in front of their faces the stumbling block of their wrongdoing. Should I let Myself be consulted by them at all?

And I will strengthen the house of Judah, And I will save the house of Joseph, And I will bring them back, Because I have had compassion on them; And they will be as though I had not rejected them, For I am the Lord their God and I will answer them.

and since we have a great priest over the house of God,let’s approach God with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.

When I scatter them among the peoples, They will remember Me in distant countries, And they with their children will live and come back.

This is the confidence which we have before Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.

“ Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel and say to them,‘ This is what the Lord God says:“ Do you yourselves come to inquire of Me? As I live,” declares the Lord God,“ I certainly will not be inquired of by you.” ’

“ In those days and at that time,” declares the Lord,“ the sons of Israel will come, they and the sons of Judah as well; they will go along weeping as they go, and it will be the Lord their God whom they will seek.They will ask for the way to Zion, turning their faces in its direction; they will come so that they may join themselves to the Lord in an everlasting covenant that will not be forgotten.

For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the Lord,‘ plans for prosperity and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.And you will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.

Therefore let’s approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace for help at the time of our need.

And when you offer your gifts, when you make your sons pass through the fire, you are defiling yourselves with all your idols to this day. So shall I be inquired of by you, house of Israel? As I live,” declares the Lord God,“ I certainly will not be inquired of by you.

Lord, You have heard the desire of the humble; You will strengthen their heart, You will make Your ear attentive

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and pleading with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

Seek the Lord while He may be found; Call upon Him while He is near.Let the wicked abandon his way, And the unrighteous person his thoughts; And let him return to the Lord, And He will have compassion on him, And to our God, For He will abundantly pardon.

You lust and do not have, so you commit murder. And you are envious and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have because you do not ask.You ask and do not receive, because you ask with the wrong motives, so that you may spend what you request on your pleasures.

And I will bring the third part through the fire, Refine them as silver is refined, And test them as gold is tested. They will call on My name, And I will answer them; I will say,‘ They are My people,’ And they will say,‘ The Lord is my God.’ ”

He has turned His attention to the prayer of the destitute And has not despised their prayer.

“ Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.