¹³ But if you put your heart right, stretching out your hands to him;

⁹ My eyes are wasting away because of my trouble: Lord, my cry has gone up to you every day, my hands are stretched out to you.

⁸ And not be like their fathers, a stiff-necked and uncontrolled generation; a generation whose heart was hard, whose spirit was not true to God.

³ Then Samuel said to all Israel, If with all your hearts you would come back to the Lord, then put away all the strange gods and the Astartes from among you, and let your hearts be turned to the Lord, and be servants to him only: and he will make you safe from the hands of the Philistines.

⁶ My hands are stretched out to you: my soul is turned to you, like a land in need of water. (Selah.)

⁴⁷ And the servant who had knowledge of his lord's desires and was not ready for him and did not do as he was ordered, will be given a great number of blows;

³¹ Kings will give you offerings, they will come out of Egypt; from Pathros will come offerings of silver; Ethiopia will be stretching out her hands to God.

²¹ Put yourself now in a right relation with him and be at peace: so will you do well in your undertakings.

²² Be pleased to take teaching from his mouth, and let his words be stored up in your heart.

⁵ If you will make search for God with care, and put your request before the Ruler of all;

⁶ If you are clean and upright; then he will certainly be moved to take up your cause, and will make clear your righteousness by building up your house again.

⁸ But as for me, I would make my prayer to God, and I would put my cause before him:

³ But still there is some good in you, for you have put away the wood pillars out of the land, and have given your heart to the worship of God.

¹⁴ And he did evil because his heart was not true to the Lord.