1 Kings 8:52

8:52 “May you be attentive ¹  to your servant’s and your people Israel’s requests for help and may you respond to all their prayers to you. ² 

1 Kings 8:54

8:54 When Solomon finished presenting all these prayers and requests to the Lord, he got up from before the altar of the Lord where he had kneeled and spread out his hands toward the sky. ³ 

1 Kings 8:59

8:59 May the Lord our God be constantly aware of these requests of mine I have presented to him, ⁴  so that he might vindicate ⁵  his servant and his people Israel as the need arises.

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¹ tn Heb “May your eyes be open.”

² tn Heb “to listen to them in all their calling out to you.”

³ tn Or “toward heaven.”

⁴ tn Heb “May these words of mine, which I have requested before the Lord, be near the Lord our God day and night.”

⁵ tn Heb “accomplish the justice of.”