Psalms 44:20

“Hey! Come, everyone who thirsts, to the waters! Come, he who has no money, buy, and eat! Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

“You shall have no other gods before me.

The earth is Yahweh’s, with its fullness; the world, and those who dwell in it.

Don’t go after other gods to serve them or worship them, and don’t provoke me to anger with the work of your hands; then I will do you no harm.”

Yahweh alone led him. There was no foreign god with him.

Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, “If you are returning to Yahweh with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, and direct your hearts to Yahweh, and serve him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.”

whatever prayer and supplication is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, who shall each know the plague of his own heart, and spread out his hands toward this house,

At the evening offering I arose up from my humiliation, even with my garment and my robe torn; and I fell on my knees, and spread out my hands to Yahweh my God;

and refused to obey. They weren’t mindful of your wonders that you did among them, but hardened their neck, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage. But you are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and didn’t forsake them.

So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man will perish,

“Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be no one to deliver.

God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you. My flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land, where there is no water.

But those who seek my soul to destroy it shall go into the lower parts of the earth.

and might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that didn’t make their hearts loyal, whose spirit was not steadfast with God.

My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of Yahweh. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

They soon forgot his works. They didn’t wait for his counsel,

When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.

I have declared, I have saved, and I have shown, and there was no strange god among you. Therefore you are my witnesses”, says Yahweh, “and I am God.

Yahweh says: “The labor of Egypt, and the merchandise of Ethiopia, and the Sabeans, men of stature, will come over to you, and they will be yours. They will go after you. They shall come over in chains. They will bow down to you. They will make supplication to you: ‘Surely God is in you; and there is no one else. There is no other god.

I will sow her to me in the earth; and I will have mercy on her who had not obtained mercy; and I will tell those who were not my people, ‘You are my people;’ and they will say, ‘My God!’ ”

He arose and went; and behold, there was a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasure, who had come to Jerusalem to worship.

for “the earth is the Lord’s, and its fullness.”

Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread out his hands to Yahweh; and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was not poured on the earth.

It shall be, if you shall forget Yahweh your God, and walk after other gods, and serve them and worship them, I testify against you today that you shall surely perish.

of the gods of the peoples who are around you, near to you, or far off from you, from the one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth—

The children of Israel didn’t remember Yahweh their God, who had delivered them out of the hand of all their enemies on every side;

Hannah answered, “No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit. I have not been drinking wine or strong drink, but I poured out my soul before Yahweh.

It was so, that when Solomon had finished praying all this prayer and supplication to Yahweh, he arose from before Yahweh’s altar, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread out toward heaven.

If you want to seek God diligently, make your supplication to the Almighty.

Be merciful to me, Lord, for I call to you all day long.

I will record Rahab and Babylon among those who acknowledge me. Behold, Philistia, Tyre, and also Ethiopia: “This one was born there.”

He made known his ways to Moses, his deeds to the children of Israel.

This is your lot, the portion measured to you from me,” says Yahweh, “because you have forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.”

They also went down into Sheol with him to those who are slain by the sword; yes, those who were his arm, who lived under his shadow in the middle of the nations.

As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil has come on us. Yet we have not entreated the favor of Yahweh our God, that we should turn from our iniquities and have discernment in your truth.

From beyond the rivers of Cush, my worshipers, even the daughter of my dispersed people, will bring my offering.

In Hades, he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom.

Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink!

Behold, to Yahweh your God belongs heaven, the heaven of heavens, and the earth, with all that is therein.

and the curse, if you do not listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, but turn away out of the way which I command you today, to go after other gods which you have not known.

He stood before Yahweh’s altar in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands

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

My eye wastes away because of grief. It grows old because of all my adversaries.

For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, neither will you allow your holy one to see corruption.

Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.

My heart throbs. My strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it has also left me.

Princes shall come out of Egypt. Ethiopia shall hurry to stretch out her hands to God.

There shall be no strange god in you, neither shall you worship any foreign god.

If only you, God, would kill the wicked. Get away from me, you bloodthirsty men!

Therefore Sheol has enlarged its desire, and opened its mouth without measure; and their glory, their multitude, their pomp, and he who rejoices among them, descend into it.

But I will warn you whom you should fear. Fear him who after he has killed, has power to cast into Gehenna. Yes, I tell you, fear him.

Little children, keep yourselves from idols.

If anyone was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire.

Moses said to him, “As soon as I have gone out of the city, I will spread out my hands to Yahweh. The thunders shall cease, and there will not be any more hail; that you may know that the earth is Yahweh’s.

Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice, and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples; for all the earth is mine;

You shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples who are around you,

Solomon stood before Yahweh’s altar in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands toward heaven;

and she looked, and behold, the king stood by the pillar, as the tradition was, with the captains and the trumpets by the king; and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew trumpets. Then Athaliah tore her clothes, and cried, “Treason! Treason!”

The wicked shall be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God.

All this has come on us, yet we haven’t forgotten you. We haven’t been false to your covenant.

If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is mine, and all that is in it.

So I will bless you while I live. I will lift up my hands in your name.

They forgot his doings, his wondrous deeds that he had shown them.

My eyes are dim from grief. I have called on you daily, Yahweh. I have spread out my hands to you.

Whatever Yahweh pleased, that he has done, in heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deeps.

I spread out my hands to you. My soul thirsts for you, like a parched land.

A voice is heard on the bare heights, the weeping and the petitions of the children of Israel; because they have perverted their way, they have forgotten Yahweh their God.

That servant, who knew his lord’s will, and didn’t prepare, nor do what he wanted, will be beaten with many stripes,

But if anyone says to you, “This was offered to idols,” don’t eat it for the sake of the one who told you, and for the sake of conscience. For “the earth is the Lord’s, with all its fullness.”

But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”