¹³ If thou -- thou hast prepared thy heart, And hast spread out unto Him thy hands,

⁹ Mine eye hath grieved because of affliction, I called Thee, O Jehovah, all the day, I have spread out unto Thee my hands.

⁸ And they are not like their fathers, A generation apostate and rebellious, A generation! it hath not prepared its heart, Nor stedfast with God `is' its spirit.

³ And Samuel speaketh unto all the house of Israel, saying, `If with all your heart ye are turning back unto Jehovah -- turn aside the gods of the stranger from your midst, and Ashtaroth; and prepare your heart unto Jehovah, and serve Him only, and He doth deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.'

⁶ I have spread forth my hands unto Thee, My soul `is' as a weary land for Thee. Selah.

⁴⁷ `And that servant, who having known his lord's will, and not having prepared, nor having gone according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes,

³¹ Come do fat ones out of Egypt, Cush causeth her hands to run to God.

²¹ Acquaint thyself, I pray thee, with Him, And be at peace, Thereby thine increase `is' good.

²² Receive, I pray thee, from His mouth a law, And set His sayings in thy heart.

⁵ If thou dost seek early unto God, And unto the Mighty makest supplication,

⁶ If pure and upright thou `art', Surely now He waketh for thee, And hath completed The habitation of thy righteousness.

⁸ Yet I -- I inquire for God, And for God I give my word,

³ but good things have been found with thee, for thou hast put away the shrines out of the land, and hast prepared thy heart to seek God.'

¹⁴ and he doth the evil thing, for he hath not prepared his heart to seek Jehovah.