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Solomon’s Prayer of Dedication

1 Kings 8:45

In 11 translations

BSB
then may You hear from heaven their prayer and their plea, and may You uphold their cause.
KJV
Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.cause: or, right
WEB
then hear in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
ASV
then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
LSV
then You have heard their prayer and their supplication in the heavens, and have maintained their cause.
YLT
then Thou hast heard in the heavens their prayer and their supplication, and hast maintained their cause.
DBY
then hear thou in the heavens their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their right.
DRC
And then hear thou in heaven their prayers, and their supplications, and do judgment for them.
GNV
Heare thou then in heauen their prayer and their supplication, and iudge their cause.
JPS
then hear Thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
LXXE
then shalt thou hear from heaven their supplication and their prayer, and shalt execute judgment for them.

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Original-language editions

WLC
וְשָׁמַעְתָּ֙ הַשָּׁמַ֔יִם אֶת־תְּפִלָּתָ֖ם וְאֶת־תְּחִנָּתָ֑ם וְעָשִׂ֖יתָ מִשְׁפָּטָֽם׃
LXX-Br
καὶ σὺ εἰσακούσῃ ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ τῆς δεήσεως αὐτῶν, καὶ τῆς προσευχῆς αὐτῶν, καὶ ποιήσεις τὸ δικαίωμα αὐτοῖς.

Who and where

◆ Reign of Solomon

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Genesis 18:25Far be it from You to do such a thing—to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous and the wicked are treated alike. Far be it from You! Will not the Judge of all the earth do what is right?”
  • Psalms 9:4For You have upheld my just cause; You sit on Your throne judging righteously.
  • Jeremiah 5:28They have grown fat and sleek, and have excelled in the deeds of the wicked. They have not taken up the cause of the fatherless, that they might prosper; nor have they defended the rights of the needy.

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