“If you prepare your heart, you will stretch out your hands toward him.
I stretch out my hands to you; my soul thirsts for you like a parched land. Selah
my eye grows dim through sorrow. Every day I call upon you, O Lord; I spread out my hands to you.
and that they should not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation whose heart was not steadfast, whose spirit was not faithful to God.
And Samuel said to all the house of Israel, “If you are returning to the Lord with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you and direct your heart to the Lord and serve him only, and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.”
If you will seek God and plead with the Almighty for mercy, if you are pure and upright, surely then he will rouse himself for you and restore your rightful habitation.
And that servant who knew his master's will but did not get ready or act according to his will, will receive a severe beating.
Nobles shall come from Egypt; Cush shall hasten to stretch out her hands to God.
“Agree with God, and be at peace; thereby good will come to you. Receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.
“As for me, I would seek God, and to God would I commit my cause,
Nevertheless, some good is found in you, for you destroyed the Asheroth out of the land, and have set your heart to seek God.”
And he did evil, for he did not set his heart to seek the Lord.
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