48. and if they turn back to you with all their heart and soul in the land of their enemies who took them captive, and pray to you towards the land you gave their ancestors, towards the city you have chosen and the temple I have built for your Name;
49. then from heaven, your dwelling-place, hear their prayer and their plea, and uphold their cause.
50. And forgive your people, who have sinned against you; forgive all the offences they have committed against you, and cause their captors to show them mercy;
51. for they are your people and your inheritance, whom you brought out of Egypt, out of that iron-smelting furnace.
52. ‘May your eyes be open to your servant’s plea and to the plea of your people Israel, and may you listen to them whenever they cry out to you.
53. For you singled them out from all the nations of the world to be your own inheritance, just as you declared through your servant Moses when you, Sovereign Lord, brought our ancestors out of Egypt.’
54. When Solomon had finished all these prayers and supplications to the Lord, he rose from before the altar of the Lord, where he had been kneeling with his hands spread out towards heaven.
55. He stood and blessed the whole assembly of Israel in a loud voice, saying:
56. ‘Praise be to the Lord, who has given rest to his people Israel just as he promised. Not one word has failed of all the good promises he gave through his servant Moses.
57. May the Lord our God be with us as he was with our ancestors; may he never leave us nor forsake us.