Quotes About Search

I will arise now and go about the city, through the streets and squares. I will seek the one I love. So I sought him but did not find him.

I encountered the watchmen on their rounds of the city: “Have you seen the one I love?”

I opened for my beloved, but he had turned and gone. My heart sank at his departure. I sought him, but did not find him. I called, but he did not answer.

Where has your beloved gone, O most beautiful among women? Which way has he turned? We will seek him with you.

a wild donkey at home in the wilderness, sniffing the wind in the heat of her desire. Who can restrain her passion? All who seek her need not weary themselves; in mating season they will find her.

“Go up and down the streets of Jerusalem. Look now and take note; search her squares. If you can find a single person, anyone who acts justly, anyone who seeks the truth, then I will forgive the city.

Why is my pain unending, and my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? You have indeed become like a mirage to me—water that is not there.

You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.

I called out to my lovers, but they have betrayed me. My priests and elders perished in the city while they searched for food to keep themselves alive.

Anguish is coming! They will seek peace, but find none.

I searched for a man among them to repair the wall and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, so that I should not destroy it. But I found no one.

My flock went astray on all the mountains and every high hill. They were scattered over the face of all the earth, with no one to search for them or seek them out.í

For this is what the Lord GOD says: ëBehold, I Myself will search for My flock and seek them out.

And men will be employed to continually pass through the land to cleanse it by burying the invaders who remain on the ground. At the end of the seven months they will begin their search.

She will pursue her lovers but not catch them; she will seek them but not find them. Then she will say, ëI will return to my first husband, for then I was better off than now.í

And at that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps and punish the men settled in complacency, who say to themselves, ëThe LORD will do nothing, either good or bad.í

And sending them to Bethlehem, he said: “Go and search carefully for the Child, and when you find Him, report to me, so that I too may go and worship Him.”

to ask Him, “Are You the One who was to come, or should we look for someone else?”

Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of fine pearls.

What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them goes astray, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go out to search for the one that is lost?

Simon and his companions went to look for Him,

and when they found Him, they said, “Everyone is looking for You!”

But He kept looking around to see who had done this.

Assuming He was in their company, they traveled on for a day before they began to look for Him among their relatives and friends.