Parallel Verses

Amplified

But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul.

New American Standard Bible

But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul.

King James Version

But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.

Holman Bible

But from there, you will search for the Lord your God, and you will find Him when you seek Him with all your heart and all your soul.

International Standard Version

If from there you will seek the LORD your God, then you will find him if you seek him with all your heart and soul.

A Conservative Version

But from there ye shall seek LORD thy God. And thou shall find him when thou search after him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.

American Standard Version

But from thence ye shall seek Jehovah thy God, and thou shalt find him, when thou searchest after him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.

Bible in Basic English

But if in those lands you are turned again to the Lord your God, searching for him with all your heart and soul, he will not keep himself from you.

Darby Translation

And from thence ye shall seek Jehovah thy God, and thou shalt find him, if thou shalt seek him with thy whole heart and with thy whole soul.

Julia Smith Translation

And thou sought from thence Jehovah thy God, and thou didst find, for ye shall seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.

King James 2000

But if from there you shall seek the LORD your God, you shall find him, if you seek him with all your heart and with all your soul.

Lexham Expanded Bible

But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God and will find him, if you seek him with all your heart and with all your soul.

Modern King James verseion

But if you shall seek Jehovah your God from there, you shall find Him, if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Neverthelater, ye shall seek the LORD your God even there, and shalt find him if thou seek him with all thine heart and with all thy soul.

NET Bible

But if you seek the Lord your God from there, you will find him, if, indeed, you seek him with all your heart and soul.

New Heart English Bible

But from there you shall seek the LORD your God, and you shall find him, when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.

The Emphasized Bible

If thou shalt seek from thence, Yahweh thy God, then shalt thou find him, - when thou shalt search after him with all thy heart, and with all thy soul.

Webster

But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou shalt seek him with all thy heart, and with all thy soul.

World English Bible

But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God, and you shall find him, when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.

Youngs Literal Translation

And -- ye have sought from thence Jehovah thy God, and hast found, when thou seekest Him with all thy heart, and with all thy soul,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
But if from thence thou shalt seek
בּקשׁ 
Baqash 
Usage: 225

the Lord

Usage: 0

אלהים 
'elohiym 
Usage: 2600

thou shalt find
מצא 
Matsa' 
Usage: 455

him, if thou seek
דּרשׁ 
Darash 
Usage: 164

him with all thy heart
לבב 
Lebab 
Usage: 251

References

Fausets

Hastings

Context Readings

Threat And Blessing Following Covenant Disobedience

28 And there you will serve [false and foreign] gods, the work of human hands, [lifeless images of] wood and stone, which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell [the offerings of food given to them]. 29 But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul. 30 When you are in distress and tribulation and all these things come on you, in the latter days you will return to the Lord your God and listen to His voice.



Cross References

2 Chronicles 15:4

But when they were in their trouble and distress they turned to the Lord God of Israel, and [in desperation earnestly] sought Him, and He let them find Him.

Isaiah 55:6-7


Seek the Lord while He may be found;
Call on Him [for salvation] while He is near.

Leviticus 26:39-42

Those of you who are left will rot away because of their wickedness in the lands of your enemies; also because of the wickedness of their forefathers they will rot away like them.

Deuteronomy 30:1-3

“So it shall be when all these things have come on you, the blessing and the curse which I have set before you, and you call them to mind in all the nations where the Lord your God has driven you,

Deuteronomy 30:10

if you listen to and obey the voice of the Lord your God to keep His commandments and His statutes which are written in this Book of the Law, and if you turn to the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul (your entire being).

1 Kings 8:47-48

if they take it to heart in the land where they have been taken captive, and they repent and pray to You in the land of their captors, saying, ‘We have sinned and done wrong and we have acted wickedly;’

2 Kings 10:31

But Jehu did not take care to walk in the law of the Lord, the God of Israel, with all his heart; he did not turn from the sins of Jeroboam, who made Israel sin.

Psalm 119:2


Blessed and favored by God are those who keep His testimonies,
And who [consistently] seek Him and long for Him with all their heart.

Jeremiah 3:10

Yet in spite of all this her treacherous sister Judah did not return to Me with her whole heart, but rather in [blatant] deception [she merely pretended obedience to King Josiah’s reforms],” declares the Lord.

Jeremiah 3:12-14

Go and proclaim these words toward the north [where the ten tribes have been taken as captives] and say,

‘Return, faithless Israel,’ says the Lord;
‘I will not look on you in anger.
For I am gracious and merciful,’ says the Lord;
‘I will not be angry forever.

Jeremiah 29:12-14

Then you will call on Me and you will come and pray to Me, and I will hear [your voice] and I will listen to you.

Nehemiah 1:9

but if you return to Me and keep My commandments and do them, though those of you who have been scattered are in the most remote part of the heavens, I will gather them from there and will bring them to the place where I have chosen for My Name to dwell.’

2 Kings 23:3

The king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before the Lord, to walk after the Lord and to keep His commandments, His testimonies, and His statutes with all his heart and soul, to confirm the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people entered into the covenant.

2 Chronicles 15:12

They entered into a covenant (solemn agreement) to seek the Lord God of their fathers with all their heart and soul;

2 Chronicles 15:15

All Judah rejoiced over the oath, for they had sworn with all their heart and had sought Him with their whole heart, and He let them find Him. So the Lord gave them rest on every side.

2 Chronicles 31:21

Every work which he began in the service of the house of God in keeping with the law and the commandment, seeking and inquiring of his God [and longing for Him], he did with all his heart and prospered.

Psalm 119:10


With all my heart I have sought You, [inquiring of You and longing for You];
Do not let me wander from Your commandments [neither through ignorance nor by willful disobedience].

Psalm 119:58


I sought Your favor with all my heart;
Be merciful and gracious to me according to Your promise.

Psalm 119:145

Qoph.
I cried with all my heart; answer me, O Lord!
I will observe Your statutes.

Joel 2:12


“Even now,” says the Lord,
“Turn and come to Me with all your heart [in genuine repentance],
With fasting and weeping and mourning [until every barrier is removed and the broken fellowship is restored];

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