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

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

“ 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 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 eye wastes away because of affliction. Lord, I have called daily upon You; I have stretched out my hands to You.

And may not be like their fathers, A stubborn and rebellious generation, A generation that did not set its heart aright, And whose spirit was not faithful to God.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Envoys will come out of Egypt; Ethiopia will quickly stretch out her hands to God.

Nevertheless good things are found in you, in that you have removed the wooden images from the land, and have prepared your heart to seek God.”