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

“ 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 leaders have set up idols in their hearts. They have embraced things that will make them fall into sin. Why should I listen to their requests?

“ I will strengthen Judah and save Israel; I will restore them because of my compassion. It will be as though I had never rejected them, for I am the Lord their God, who will hear their cries.

And since we have a great High Priest who rules over God’s house,let us go right into the presence of God with sincere hearts fully trusting him. For our guilty consciences have been sprinkled with Christ’s blood to make us clean, and our bodies have been washed with pure water.

Though I have scattered them like seeds among the nations, they will still remember me in distant lands. They and their children will survive and return again to Israel.

And we are confident that he hears us whenever we ask for anything that pleases him.

“ Son of man, tell the leaders of Israel,‘ This is what the Sovereign Lord says: How dare you come to ask me for a message? As surely as I live, says the Sovereign Lord, I will tell you nothing!’

“ In those coming days,” says the Lord,“ the people of Israel will return home together with the people of Judah. They will come weeping and seeking the Lord their God.They will ask the way to Jerusalem and will start back home again. They will bind themselves to the Lord with an eternal covenant that will never be forgotten.

For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord.“ They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.In those days when you pray, I will listen.If you look for me wholeheartedly, you will find me.

So let us come boldly to the throne of our gracious God. There we will receive his mercy, and we will find grace to help us when we need it most.

For when you offer gifts to them and give your little children to be burned as sacrifices, you continue to pollute yourselves with idols to this day. Should I allow you to ask for a message from me, O people of Israel? As surely as I live, says the Sovereign Lord, I will tell you nothing.

Lord, you know the hopes of the helpless. Surely you will hear their cries and comfort them.

Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done.

Seek the Lord while you can find him. Call on him now while he is near.Let the wicked change their ways and banish the very thought of doing wrong. Let them turn to the Lord that he may have mercy on them. Yes, turn to our God, for he will forgive generously.

You want what you don’t have, so you scheme and kill to get it. You are jealous of what others have, but you can’t get it, so you fight and wage war to take it away from them. Yet you don’t have what you want because you don’t ask God for it.And even when you ask, you don’t get it because your motives are all wrong— you want only what will give you pleasure.

I will bring that group through the fire and make them pure. I will refine them like silver and purify them like gold. They will call on my name, and I will answer them. I will say,‘ These are my people,’ and they will say,‘ The Lord is our God.’”

He will listen to the prayers of the destitute. He will not reject their pleas.

“ Keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you.For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And to everyone who knocks, the door will be opened.