6 Search for Jehovah, YOU people, while he may be found.+ Call to him while he proves to be near.+

12 And YOU will certainly call me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to YOU.’+

5 To Zion they will keep asking the way, with their faces in that direction,+ [saying,] ‘Come and let us join ourselves to Jehovah in an indefinitely lasting covenant that will not be forgotten.’+

9 And I shall certainly bring the third [part] through the fire;+ and I shall actually refine them as in the refining of silver,+ and examine them as in the examining of gold.+ It, for its part, will call upon my name, and I, for my part, will answer it.+ I will say, ‘It is my people,’+ and it, in its turn, will say, ‘Jehovah is my God.’”+

7 “Keep on asking,+ and it will be given YOU; keep on seeking, and YOU will find; keep on knocking,+ and it will be opened to YOU.