When you stretch forth your hands, I will turn away My eyes from you; and though you make many supplications, I will not hearken to you; for your hands are full of blood.

For the holy people shall dwell in Zion; and [whereas] Jerusalem has wept bitterly, [saying], Pity me; He shall pity you; when He heard the voice of your cry, He hearkened to you.

And it shall come to pass, [that] before they call, I will hearken to them; while they are yet speaking, I will say, What is it?

The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and His ears [are open] to their prayer;

and delivered them out of all their afflictions.

Delight [yourself] in the Lord, and He shall grant you the desires of your heart.

And call upon Me in the day of affliction; and I shall deliver you, and you shall glorify Me. Pause.

If I have regarded iniquity in my heart, let not the Lord hearken [to me].

Therefore God has hearkened to me; He has attended to the voice of my prayer.

He shall call upon Me, and I will hearken to him; I am with him in affliction; and I will deliver him, and glorify him.

I called on the Lord out of affliction; and He hearkened to me, [and brought me] into a wide place.

And pray to Me, and I will hearken to you; and you shall earnestly seek Me, and you shall find Me;

for you shall seek Me with your whole heart.

"Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you.

For everyone that asks receives, and he that seeks finds, and to him that knocks, it shall be opened.

Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence toward God.

And whatever we should ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and we do the things pleasing before Him.

And he brought [them] to his father, and said, Father; and he said, Behold I [am here]; who are you, son?

And the Lord called, Samuel, Samuel; and he said, Behold, [here] [am] I.

And the Lord called again, Samuel, Samuel; and he went to Eli the second time, and said, Behold [here] [am] I, for you called me. And he said, I did not call you; return, go to sleep.

And the Lord called Samuel again for the third time; and he arose and went to Eli, and said, Behold, I [am here], for you called me. And Eli perceived that the Lord had called the child.

Against whom have you been rioting? And against whom have you opened your mouth, and against whom have you loosed your tongue? Are you not children of perdition? A lawless seed?

And the same winks with the eye, and makes a sign with his foot, and teaches with the beckonings of his fingers.

For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with sins; your lips also have spoken iniquity, and your tongue meditates unrighteousness.

None speaks justly, neither is there true judgment; they trust in vanities, and speak empty [words]; for they conceive trouble, and bring forth iniquity.

Everyone has spoken vanity to his neighbor: their lips are deceitful, they have spoken with a double heart.

And therefore say, Thus says the Lord: Because your words are false, and your prophecies are vain, therefore behold, I am against you, says the Lord.

For the speakers have uttered grievous things, and the diviners have seen false visions, and they have spoken false dreams, they have given vain comfort: therefore have they fallen away like sheep, and been afflicted, because there was no healing.