Tafsiran Yesaya 55:6: Tze'enah Ure'enah, Rashi & Ibn Ezra

“Seek the Lord while He can be found, call to Him while He is near” [55:6]. The prophet said: seek the Holy One with your whole heart to repent, expecting that the Holy One will be close to you.

when He is found Before the verdict is promulgated, when He still says to you, “Seek Me.”

Seek ye the Lord. This appeal is made to the contemporaries of the prophet,¹³That were, together with the prophet, captives in Babylon. See I. E. on 40:1. telling them to seek the Lord, since they knew that they would be redeemed from Babylon, and after that again from all other nations.