But indeed, I would seek the Mighty God, and before God I would lay out my case;

If you would earnestly seek the Mighty God and make your supplication to the Almighty,

if you were pure and upright, surely now He would awake for you, and would have restored your righteous abode.

Now be useful to Him, and be at peace; thereby good shall come to you.

Receive, now, the Law from His mouth, and lay up His Words in your heart.

And Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, If you are returning unto Jehovah with all your hearts, then put away the foreign gods and Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare your hearts for Jehovah, and serve Him only; and He will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.

And he did evil, because he had not fixed his heart to seek Jehovah.

Nevertheless good things have been found in you, in that you have burned the groves from the land, and have fixed your heart to seek God.

and might not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that did not set its heart aright, and whose spirit has not been faithful to the Mighty God.

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.

Ambassadors shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall hurry with gifts in her hands unto God.

my eye has become faint because of affliction. Jehovah, I have called daily upon You; I have stretched out my hands unto You.

I have spread my hands toward You; my soul is like a weary land. Selah