¹³ If thou set thy heart aright, And stretch out thy hands toward him;

⁹ Mine eye wasteth away by reason of affliction: I have called daily upon thee, O Jehovah; I have spread forth my hands unto thee.

⁸ And might not be as their fathers, A stubborn and rebellious generation, A generation that set not their heart aright, And whose spirit was not stedfast with God.

³ And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying, If ye do return unto Jehovah with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, and direct your hearts unto Jehovah, and serve him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.

⁶ I spread forth my hands unto thee: My soul `thirsteth' after thee, as a weary land. Selah

⁴⁷ And that servant, who knew his lord's will, and made not ready, nor did according to his will, shall be beaten with many `stripes';

³¹ Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall haste to stretch out her hands unto God.

²¹ Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: Thereby good shall come unto thee.

²² Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, And lay up his words in thy heart.

⁵ If thou wouldest seek diligently unto God, And make thy supplication to the Almighty;

⁶ If thou wert pure and upright: Surely now he would awake for thee, And make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.

⁸ But as for me, I would seek unto God, And unto God would I commit my cause;

³ Nevertheless there are good things found in thee, in that thou hast put away the Asheroth out of the land, and hast set thy heart to seek God.

¹⁴ And he did that which was evil, because he set not his heart to seek Jehovah.