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"Who seek your face" (24:6). Does the psalm say anyone will see God's face?

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It speaks of seeking: "This is the generation of those who seek Him, who seek your face" (24:6). In Hebrew the two seeks are two verbs, darash and baqash (tap seek, face). Another psalm has baqash with face twice in one verse: "Seek my face" and "I will seek your face, LORD" (Psalm 27:8). Psalm 24 doesn't say whether those who seek his face will see it. Psalm 11's notes set "The upright shall see his face" (Psalm 11:7) beside "You cannot see my face" (Exodus 33:20) and other verses, and Exodus 33's notes set out how Christians read them; these notes don't repeat them.

The verses

“This is the generation of those who seek Him, who seek your face—even Jacob. Selah.”
Psalm 24:6 · World English Bible
“When you said, “Seek my face,” my heart said to you, “I will seek your face, LORD.””
Psalm 27:8 · World English Bible
“For the LORD is righteous. He loves righteousness. The upright shall see his face.”
Psalm 11:7 · World English Bible
“He said, “You cannot see my face, for man may not see me and live.””
Exodus 33:20 · World English Bible

From Favor's study of Psalm 24

Psalm 24: The King of glory will come in

"Who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood" (24:4) has the same two Hebrew words as "You shall not misuse the name of the LORD your God" (Exodus 20:7). And that verb, lift, runs through the psalm: he "shall receive a blessing" (24:5), and the gates are told to lift up their heads for the King of glory, whom the psalm names: "The LORD of Armies" (24:10).

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