40. so that your people may obey you all the time they live in the land which you gave to our ancestors.
41-42. “When a foreigner who lives in a distant land hears of your fame and of the great things you have done for your people, and comes to worship you and to pray at this Temple,
43. listen to his prayer. In heaven, where you live, hear him and do what he asks you to do, so that all the peoples of the world may know you and obey you, as your people Israel do. Then they will know that this Temple I have built is the place where you are to be worshipped.
44. “When you command your people to go into battle against their enemies and they pray to you, wherever they are, facing this city which you have chosen and this Temple which I have built for you,
45. listen to their prayers. Hear them in heaven, and give them victory.
46. “When your people sin against you — and there is no one who does not sin — and in your anger you let their enemies defeat them and take them as prisoners to some other land, even if that land is far away,
47. listen to your people's prayers. If there in that land they repent and pray to you, confessing how sinful and wicked they have been, hear their prayers, O Lord.
48. If in that land they truly and sincerely repent, and pray to you as they face towards this land which you gave to our ancestors, this city which you have chosen, and this Temple which I have built for you,
49. then listen to their prayers. In your home in heaven hear them and be merciful to them.
50. Forgive all their sins and their rebellion against you, and make their enemies treat them with kindness.
51. They are your own people, whom you brought out of Egypt, that blazing furnace.
52. “Sovereign Lord, may you always look with favour on your people Israel and their king, and hear their prayer whenever they call to you for help.
53. You chose them from all the peoples to be your own people, as you told them through your servant Moses when you brought our ancestors out of Egypt.”
54. After Solomon had finished praying to the Lord, he stood up in front of the altar, where he had been kneeling with uplifted hands.
55. In a loud voice he asked God's blessings on all the people assembled there. He said,
56. “Praise the Lord who has given his people peace, as he promised he would. He has kept all the generous promises he made through his servant Moses.
57. May the Lord our God be with us, as he was with our ancestors; may he never leave us, or abandon us;
58. may he make us obedient to him, so that we will always live as he wants us to live, and keep all the laws and commands he gave our ancestors.