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1 Kings 8:39-43 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

39. listen in heaven, the place of your enthronement; forgive and take action. Render to each and all according to their ways, you who know every heart; for it is you alone who know the heart of every human being.

40. So may they revere you as long as they live on the land you gave our ancestors.

41. “To the foreigners, likewise, who are not of your people Israel, but who come from a distant land for the sake of your name

42. (since people will hear of your great name and your mighty hand and your outstretched arm), when they come and pray toward this house,

43. listen in heaven, the place of your enthronement. Do all that the foreigner asks of you, that all the peoples of the earth may know your name, may revere you as do your people Israel, and may know that your name has been invoked upon this house that I have built.

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