⁹ Then shall you call, and Yahweh will answer; you shall cry, and he will say, Here I am. If you take away from the midst of you the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking wickedly;

¹⁵ Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me."

²⁴ It shall happen that, before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.

² Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

¹³ Who winks with his eyes, who signals with his feet, Who motions with his fingers;

¹⁵ He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.

¹⁵ Yahweh's eyes are toward the righteous. His ears listen to their cry.

¹⁶ Yahweh's face is against those who do evil, To cut off the memory of them from the earth.

¹⁷ The righteous cry, and Yahweh hears, And delivers them out of all their troubles.

⁴ Also delight yourself in Yahweh, And he will give you the desires of your heart.

¹⁵ When you spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.

¹² You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.

¹³ You shall seek me, and find me, when you shall search for me with all your heart.

⁷ "Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.

⁸ For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.

²¹ Beloved, if our hearts don't condemn us, we have boldness toward God;

²² and whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.

² For the teraphim have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie; And they have told false dreams. They comfort in vain. Therefore they go their way like sheep. They are oppressed, because there is no shepherd.

⁴ that Yahweh called Samuel; and he said, Here am I.

⁵ He ran to Eli, and said, Here am I; for you called me. He said, I didn't call; lie down again. He went and lay down.

⁶ Yahweh called yet again, Samuel. Samuel arose and went to Eli, and said, Here am I; for you called me. He answered, I didn't call, my son; lie down again.

⁷ Now Samuel didn't yet know Yahweh, neither was the word of Yahweh yet revealed to him.

⁸ Yahweh called Samuel again the third time. He arose and went to Eli, and said, Here am I; for you called me. Eli perceived that Yahweh had called the child.

¹⁸ If I cherished sin in my heart, The Lord wouldn't have listened.

¹⁹ But most assuredly, God has listened. He has heard the voice of my prayer.

⁵ Out of my distress, I called on Yah. Yah answered me with freedom.

¹⁹ For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem; you shall weep no more; he will surely be gracious to you at the voice of your cry; when he shall hear, he will answer you.

⁴ Against whom do you sport yourselves? against whom make you a wide mouth, and put out the tongue? Aren't you children of disobedience, a seed of falsehood,

⁶ Isn't this the fast that I have chosen: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?

³ For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue mutters wickedness.

⁴ None sues in righteousness, and none pleads in truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

¹³ transgressing and denying Yahweh, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

⁸ Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have spoken falsehood, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you, says the Lord Yahweh.

¹⁸ He came to his father, and said, "My father?" He said, "Here I am. Who are you, my son?"