Isaiah 65:1

I am sought of them that asked not for me -That is, by the Gentiles. So Paul applies it inRomans 10:20. Lowth translates the word which is rendered, ‘I am sought,’ by ‘I am made known.’ Noyes, ‘I have heard.’ The Septuagint renders it,Ἐμφανὴς ἐγενήθηνEmphanēsegenēthēn- ‘I became manifest.’ Jerome, ‘They sought me who had not before inquired for me.’ The Chaldee, ‘I am sought in my word by those who had not asked me before my face.’ The Hebrew wordדרשׁdârashmeans properly “to frequent a place, to search or seek”; and in the Niphal - the form used here - “to be sought unto, to grant access to anyone; hence, to hear and answer prayer”Ezekiel 14:3;Ezekiel 20:3-31.