13 “If you would (A)prepare your heart,
And (B)stretch out your hands toward Him;

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13 “Yet if you devote your heart(A) to him
    and stretch out your hands(B) to him,(C)

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I spread out my hands to You;
(A)My soul longs for You like a thirsty land. Selah

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I spread out my hands(A) to you;
    I thirst for you like a parched land.[a]

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  1. Psalm 143:6 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here.

My eye wastes away because of affliction.

(A)Lord, I have called daily upon You;
I have stretched out my hands to You.

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    my eyes(A) are dim with grief.

I call(B) to you, Lord, every day;
    I spread out my hands(C) to you.

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And (A)may not be like their fathers,
(B)A stubborn and rebellious generation,
A generation (C)that did not [a]set its heart aright,
And whose spirit was not faithful to God.

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  1. Psalm 78:8 Lit. prepare its heart

They would not be like their ancestors(A)
    a stubborn(B) and rebellious(C) generation,
whose hearts were not loyal to God,
    whose spirits were not faithful to him.

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Then Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, “If you (A)return to the Lord with all your hearts, then (B)put away the foreign gods and the (C)Ashtoreths[a] from among you, and (D)prepare your hearts for the Lord, and (E)serve Him only; and He will deliver you from the hand of the Philistines.”

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  1. 1 Samuel 7:3 Images of Canaanite goddesses

So Samuel said to all the Israelites, “If you are returning(A) to the Lord with all your hearts, then rid(B) yourselves of the foreign gods and the Ashtoreths(C) and commit(D) yourselves to the Lord and serve him only,(E) and he will deliver(F) you out of the hand of the Philistines.”

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(A)If you would earnestly seek God
And make your supplication to the Almighty,
If you were pure and upright,
Surely now He would [a]awake for you,
And prosper your rightful dwelling place.

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  1. Job 8:6 arise

But if you will seek God earnestly
    and plead(A) with the Almighty,(B)
if you are pure and upright,
    even now he will rouse himself on your behalf(C)
    and restore you to your prosperous state.(D)

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47 And (A)that servant who (B)knew his master’s will, and did not prepare himself or do according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.

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47 “The servant who knows the master’s will and does not get ready or does not do what the master wants will be beaten with many blows.(A)

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31 (A)Envoys will come out of Egypt;
(B)Ethiopia will quickly (C)stretch out her hands to God.

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31 Envoys will come from Egypt;(A)
    Cush[a](B) will submit herself to God.

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  1. Psalm 68:31 That is, the upper Nile region

21 “Now acquaint yourself with Him, and (A)be at peace;
Thereby good will come to you.
22 Receive, please, (B)instruction from His mouth,
And (C)lay up His words in your heart.

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21 “Submit to God and be at peace(A) with him;(B)
    in this way prosperity will come to you.(C)
22 Accept instruction from his mouth(D)
    and lay up his words(E) in your heart.(F)

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“But as for me, I would seek God,
And to God I would commit my cause—

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“But if I were you, I would appeal to God;
    I would lay my cause before him.(A)

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Nevertheless (A)good things are found in you, in that you have removed the [a]wooden images from the land, and have (B)prepared your heart to seek God.”

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  1. 2 Chronicles 19:3 Or Asherim, Heb. Asheroth

There is, however, some good(A) in you, for you have rid the land of the Asherah poles(B) and have set your heart on seeking God.(C)

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14 And he did evil, because he did not prepare his heart to seek the Lord.

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14 He did evil because he had not set his heart on seeking the Lord.

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