“ Yet if you devote your heart to him and stretch out your hands to him,

“你若将心安正，又向主举手；

“至于你，若坚固己心，又向主举手；

“至于你，若坚固己心，又向主举手；

“你若把心安正，向祂举手祷告；

你若心里归向他，又向他伸手祷告；

你若將心安正，又向主舉手；

「至於你，若堅固己心，又向主舉手；

「至於你，若堅固己心，又向主舉手；

「你若把心安正，向祂舉手禱告；

你若心裡歸向他，又向他伸手禱告；

『你呢，你若將心守正，伸開雙手向他禱告——

爾若秉心正直、向上帝舉手、

爾如洗心、祈禱上帝、

爾若定心、定心或作洗心向天主舉手、

“ So commit yourself to God completely. Reach out your hands to him for help.

“ If you prepare your heart, you will stretch out your hands toward him.

“ If only you would prepare your heart and lift up your hands to him in prayer!

As for you, if you redirect your heart and spread out your hands to him in prayer—

“ If you would direct your heart rightly And spread out your hands to Him,

“ If you would prepare your heart, And stretch out your hands toward Him;

If thou set thy heart aright, And stretch out thy hands toward him;

As for you, if you redirect your heart and lift up your hands to Him in prayer—

If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him;

“ As for you, if you prove faithful, and if you stretch out your hands toward him,

“ If you set your heart aright, stretch out your hands toward him.

my eyes are dim with grief. I call to you, Lord, every day; I spread out my hands to you.

They would not be like their ancestors— a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose hearts were not loyal to God, whose spirits were not faithful to him.

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

I spread out my hands to you; I thirst for you like a parched land.

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

“ Submit to God and be at peace with him; in this way prosperity will come to you.Accept instruction from his mouth and lay up his words in your heart.

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

“ 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.

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

Envoys will come from Egypt; Cush will submit herself to God.

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