2 Chronicles 15:15

⁷For he said to Judah, “Let’s build these cities and make walls around them, with towers, gates, and bars. The land is yet before us, because we have sought the LORD our God. We have sought him, and he has given us rest on every side.” So they built and prospered.

¹²They entered into the covenant to seek the LORD, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul;

⁸Yes, in the way of your judgments, LORD, we have waited for you. Your name and your renown are the desire of our soul.

¹²For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

⁴But when in their distress they turned to the LORD, the God of Israel, and sought him, he was found by them.

¹¹Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, you righteous! Shout for joy, all you who are upright in heart!

¹¹¹I have taken your testimonies as a heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.

¹⁷Her ways are ways of pleasantness. All her paths are peace.

¹¹You shall rejoice in all the good which the LORD your God has given to you, and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the foreigner who is among you.

⁶They were broken in pieces, nation against nation, and city against city; for God troubled them with all adversity.