to seek unto God "by prayer", as the Targum adds, and of which it is explained in the next clause, and that he would do this "betimes", or "in the morning" ; which is a proper time for prayer, and was one of the seasons good men in former times made use of for that purpose; see Ps 5:3; or that he would seek him in the first place, and above all things, take the first opportunity to do it, without any procrastination of it, and that with eagerness and earnestness, with his whole heart and soul; for God is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him, and those that seek him early shall find him:and make thy supplication to the Almighty: not pleading any merit of his own, as deserving of any blessing on account of what he had done; but ask what he should as a favour, as a free gift, in a way of grace and mercy, as the word signifies; call for the pity of the Almighty, as Broughton renders it.
rxvt "mane quaesieris", Pagninus, Piscator, Mercerus.