Six ways to encounter God here
A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in Isaiah 26:9, and Living Bread opens it right there.
Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.
The web of Scripture around it
Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 12 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.
- Matthew 6:33
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
- Psalms 119:62
At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee because of thy righteous judgments.
- Psalms 63:1
O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;
- Song of Solomon 3:1
By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
- Psalms 63:6
When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches.
- Luke 6:12
And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.
- Revelation 11:13
And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the r…
- Psalms 58:11
So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.
- Mark 1:35
And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed.
- Proverbs 8:17
I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.
- Psalms 77:2
In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.
- Isaiah 55:6
Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:
More to meet God in Isaiah
How it points to Christ
Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.