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1 Kings 8:49-56 Modern English Version (MEV)

49. then may You hear their prayers and supplications in heaven, Your dwelling place, and maintain their cause,

50. and forgive Your people who have sinned against You and all their transgressions which they committed against You and grant them compassion before those who carried them away as captives, so they will have compassion on them.

51. For they are Your people and Your inheritance whom You brought forth out of Egypt from the midst of the furnace of iron.

52. “Let Your eyes be open to the supplication of Your servant and to the supplication of Your people Israel, to listen to them regarding all for which they call upon You.

53. For You did call them out from among all the people of the earth to be Your inheritance, as You spoke by the hand of Moses Your servant when You brought our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord God.”

54. Now when Solomon finished praying this prayer and making supplication to the Lord, he arose from before the altar of the Lord, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to heaven.

55. He stood up and blessed all the congregation of Israel with a loud voice, saying,

56. “Blessed be the Lord who has given rest to His people Israel according to all that He promised. Not one word of His promises which He gave by the hand of Moses His servant has failed.

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