“ 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.

“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.

‘ 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.

‘ 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.

“‘ 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 erected their idols in their hearts and placed the obstacle leading to their iniquity right before their faces. Should I really allow them to seek me?

“ I( says the LORD) will strengthen the kingdom of Judah and deliver the people of Joseph and will bring them back because of my compassion for them. They will be as though I had never rejected them, for I am the LORD their God and therefore I will hear them.

and since we have a great priest over the house of God,let us draw near with a sincere heart in the assurance that faith brings, because we have had our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed in pure water.

Though I scatter them among the nations, they will remember in far-off places– they and their children will sprout forth and return.

And this is the confidence that we have before him: that whenever we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.

“ Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel, and tell them:‘ This is what the sovereign LORD says: Are you coming to seek me? As surely as I live, I will not allow you to seek me, declares the sovereign LORD.’

“ When that time comes,” says the LORD,“ the people of Israel and Judah will return to the land together. They will come back with tears of repentance as they seek the LORD their God.They will ask the way to Zion; they will turn their faces toward it. They will come and bind themselves to the LORD in a lasting covenant that will never be forgotten.

For I know what I have planned for you,’ says the LORD.‘ I have plans to prosper you, not to harm you. I have plans to give you a future filled with hope.When you call out to me and come to me in prayer, I will hear your prayers.When you seek me in prayer and worship, you will find me available to you. If you seek me with all your heart and soul,

Therefore let us confidently approach the throne of grace to receive mercy and find grace whenever we need help.

When you present your sacrifices– when you make your sons pass through the fire– you defile yourselves with all your idols to this very day. Will I allow you to seek me, O house of Israel? As surely as I live, declares the sovereign LORD, I will not allow you to seek me!

LORD, you have heard the request of the oppressed; you make them feel secure because you listen to their prayer.

Do not be anxious about anything. Instead, in every situation, through prayer and petition with thanksgiving, tell your requests to God.

Seek the LORD while he makes himself available; call to him while he is nearby!The wicked need to abandon their lifestyle and sinful people their plans. They should return to the LORD, and he will show mercy to them, and to their God, for he will freely forgive them.

You desire and you do not have; you murder and envy and you cannot obtain; you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask;you ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly, so you can spend it on your passions.

Then I will bring the remaining third into the fire; I will refine them like silver is refined and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name and I will answer; I will say,‘ These are my people,’ and they will say,‘ The LORD is my God.’”

when he responds to the prayer of the destitute, and does not reject their request.

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