The Lord looks out of heaven; He beholds all the sons of men.

He looks [down] from His dwelling place on all the inhabitants of the earth;

For He has looked out from the height of His sanctuary; the Lord looked upon the earth from heaven;

to hear the groaning of the fettered ones, to loosen the sons of the slain;

[ 6:13] And the Lord God saw the earth, that it was corrupted; because all flesh had corrupted its way upon the earth.

And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the sons of men had built.

I will therefore go down and see, if they completely correspond with the cry which comes to Me, and if not, I will know.

Turn from heaven, and look from Your holy habitation and [from] Your glory; where is Your zeal and Your strength? Where is the abundance of Your mercy and of Your compassions, that You have withheld Yourself from us?

If you would open the heaven, trembling will take hold upon the mountains from You, and they shall melt,

until the Lord look down, and behold from heaven.

They know not, nor understand; they walk on in darkness; all the foundations of the earth shall be shaken.

Who is wise, and will observe these things, and understand the mercies of the Lord?

Then shall you understand righteousness and judgment, equity [and] every good path.

O you simple, understand prudence, and you that are untaught, take in knowledge.

Whoever is foolish, let him turn aside to me: and to them that want understanding she says,

saying, Whoever is [the] most senseless of you, let him turn aside to me; and I exhort those that want prudence, saying,

And after a time there shall be in it no green thing because of [the grass] being parched. Come here, you woman that comes from a sight; for it is a people of no understanding; therefore He that made them shall have no pity upon them, and He that formed them shall have no mercy [upon them].

For the princes of My people have not known Me, they are foolish and unwise children. They are wise to do evil, but [how] to do good they have not known.

Many must be tested, and thoroughly whitened, and tried with fire, and sanctified; but the transgressors shall transgress: and none of the transgressors shall understand, but the wise shall understand.

For the heart of this people has become dull, and their ears are hard of hearing, and their eyes have closed, lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, lest they should understand with their hearts and turn back, that I should heal them.'

There is none who understands; there is none who seeks God.

Let the poor see and rejoice; seek the Lord diligently, and you shall live.

Nevertheless [some] good things have been found in you, forasmuch as you did remove the groves from the land of Judah, and you directed your heart to seek after the Lord.

The good Lord be merciful with regard to every heart that sincerely seeks the Lord God of their fathers, and [is] not [purified] according to the purification of the sanctuary.

And if they should say to you, Seek those who have in them a divining spirit, and them that speak out of the earth, them that speak vain words, who speak out of their belly; shall not a nation diligently seek their God? Why do they look to the dead concerning the living?

Seek the Lord, and when you find Him, call upon Him; and when He draws near to you,

But without faith it is impossible to please [God], for it is necessary [for] the [one] approaching God to believe that He is, and that He becomes a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.