If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god,
There shall be no strange god among you; you shall not bow down to a foreign god.
“If you prepare your heart, you will stretch out your hands toward him.
Nobles shall come from Egypt; Cush shall hasten to stretch out her hands to God.
You shall not go after other gods, the gods of the peoples who are around you—
They forgot his works and the wonders that he had shown them.
All this has come upon us, though we have not forgotten you, and we have not been false to your covenant.
O Lord my God, if I have done this, if there is wrong in my hands, if I have repaid my friend with evil or plundered my enemy without cause, let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake it, and let him trample my life to the ground and lay my glory in the dust. Selah
“If I have walked with falsehood and my foot has hastened to deceit; (Let me be weighed in a just balance, and let God know my integrity!) if my step has turned aside from the way and my heart has gone after my eyes, and if any spot has stuck to my hands, then let me sow, and another eat, and let what grows for me be rooted out. “If my heart has been enticed toward a woman, and I have lain in wait at my neighbor's door,
Then Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the assembly of Israel and spread out his hands toward heaven,
Moses said to him, “As soon as I have gone out of the city, I will stretch out my hands to the Lord. The thunder will cease, and there will be no more hail, so that you may know that the earth is the Lord's.
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