Then you shall call, and the Lord will answer;
    you shall cry, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’
If you take away (A)the yoke from your midst,
    (B)the pointing of the finger, and speaking wickedness,

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15 and (A)call upon me in the day of trouble;
    I will (B)deliver you, and you shall (C)glorify me.”

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12 (A)Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, (B)and I will hear you. 13 (C)You will seek me and find me, when you seek me (D)with all your heart.

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24 (A)Before they call I will answer;
    (B)while they are yet speaking I will hear.

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13 (A)winks with his eyes, signals[a] with his feet,
    points with his finger,

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 6:13 Hebrew scrapes

15 (A)The eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous
    (B)and his ears toward their cry.
16 (C)The face of the Lord is against those who do evil,
    to (D)cut off the memory of them from the earth.
17 (E)When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears
    and delivers them out of all their troubles.

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Everyone (A)utters lies to his neighbor;
    with (B)flattering lips and (C)a double heart they speak.

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Ask, and It Will Be Given

(A)“Ask, (B)and it will be given to you; (C)seek, and you will find; (D)knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.

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15 When you (A)spread out your hands,
    I will hide my eyes from you;
(B)even though you make many prayers,
    I will not listen;
    (C)your hands are full of blood.

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15 When he (A)calls to me, I will answer him;
    I will be with him in trouble;
    I will rescue him and (B)honor him.

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“Is not this the fast that I choose:
    (A)to loose the bonds of wickedness,
    to undo the straps (B)of the yoke,
to let the oppressed[a] go free,
    and to break every yoke?

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  1. Isaiah 58:6 Or bruised

(A)Out of my distress I (B)called on the Lord;
    the Lord answered me and set me (C)free.

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18 If I had (A)cherished iniquity in my heart,
    (B)the Lord would not have listened.
19 But truly (C)God has listened;
    he has attended to the voice of my prayer.

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(A)Delight yourself in the Lord,
    and he will (B)give you the desires of your heart.

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21 Beloved, (A)if our heart does not condemn us, (B)we have confidence before God; 22 and (C)whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and (D)do what pleases him.

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For (A)the household gods (B)utter nonsense,
    and the diviners see lies;
(C)they tell false dreams
    and give empty consolation.
Therefore (D)the people wander like sheep;
    they are afflicted for lack of a shepherd.

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Whom are you mocking?
    Against whom (A)do you open your mouth wide
    and stick out your tongue?
Are you not children of (B)transgression,
    (C)the offspring of deceit,

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Therefore thus says the Lord God: “Because you have uttered falsehood and seen lying visions, therefore behold, (A)I am against you, declares the Lord God.

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13 transgressing, and denying the Lord,
    and turning back from following our God,
(A)speaking oppression and revolt,
    conceiving and uttering from the heart lying words.

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(A)For your hands are defiled with blood
    and your fingers with iniquity;
your lips have spoken lies;
    your tongue mutters wickedness.
(B)No one enters suit justly;
    no one goes to law honestly;
they rely on empty pleas, they speak lies,
    (C)they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.

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19 For a people shall dwell (A)in Zion, in Jerusalem; you shall weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the sound of your cry. As soon as he hears it, he answers you.

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Then the Lord called Samuel, and he said, “Here I am!” and ran to Eli and said, “Here I am, for you called me.” But he said, “I did not call; lie down again.” So he went and lay down.

And the Lord called again, “Samuel!” and Samuel arose and went to Eli and said, “Here I am, for you called me.” But he said, “I did not call, my son; lie down again.” Now Samuel did not yet know the Lord, and the word of the Lord had not yet been revealed to him.

And the Lord called Samuel again the third time. And he arose and went to Eli and said, “Here I am, for you called me.” Then Eli perceived that the Lord was calling the boy.

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18 So he went in to his father and said, “My father.” And he said, “Here I am. Who are you, my son?”

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