51. These are your people and your inheritance. You brought them out of Egypt, from the iron furnace.
52. Open your eyes to your servant’s request and to the request of your people Israel. Hear them whenever they cry out to you.
53. You set them apart from all the earth’s peoples as your own inheritance, Lord, just as you promised through your servant Moses when you brought our ancestors out of Egypt.
54. As soon as Solomon finished praying and making these requests to the Lord, he got up from before the Lord’s altar, where he had been kneeling with his hands spread out to heaven.
55. He stood up and blessed the whole Israelite assembly in a loud voice: