1 Kings 8:29-53

1 Kings 8:29-53

[29] That thine eyes  may be open  toward this house  night  and day,  even toward the place  of which thou hast said,  My name  shall be there: that thou mayest hearken  unto the prayer  which thy servant  shall make  toward this place.  [30] And hearken  thou to the supplication  of thy servant,  and of thy people  Israel,  when they shall pray  toward this place:  and hear  thou in heaven  thy dwelling  place:  and when thou hearest,  forgive.  [31] If any man  trespass  against his neighbour,  and an oath  upon him to cause him to swear,  and the oath  come  before  thine altar  in this house:  [32] Then hear  thou in heaven,  and do,  and judge  thy servants,  condemning  the wicked,  to bring  his way  upon his head;  and justifying  the righteous,  to give  him according to his righteousness.  [33] When thy people  Israel  be smitten down  before  the enemy,  because they have sinned  against thee, and shall turn again  to thee, and confess  thy name,  and pray,  and make supplication  unto thee in this house:  [34] Then hear  thou in heaven,  and forgive  the sin  of thy people  Israel,  and bring them again  unto the land  which thou gavest  unto their fathers.  [35] When heaven  is shut up,  and there is no rain,  because they have sinned  against thee; if they pray  toward this place,  and confess  thy name,  and turn  from their sin,  when thou afflictest  them: [36] Then hear  thou in heaven,  and forgive  the sin  of thy servants,  and of thy people  Israel,  that thou teach  them the good  way  and give  rain  upon thy land,  which thou hast given  to thy people  for an inheritance.  [37] If there be in the land  famine,  if there be pestilence,  blasting,  mildew,  locust,  or if there be caterpiller;  if their enemy  besiege  them in the land  of their cities;  whatsoever plague,  whatsoever sickness  there be; [38] What prayer  and supplication  soever be made by any man,  or by all thy people  Israel,  which shall know  every man  the plague  of his own heart,  and spread forth  his hands  toward this house:  [39] Then hear  thou in heaven  thy dwelling  place,  and forgive,  and do,  and give  to every man  according to his ways,  whose heart  thou knowest;  the hearts  of all the children  of men;)  [40] That they may fear  thee all the days  that they live  in  the land  which thou gavest  unto our fathers.  [41] Moreover concerning a stranger,  that is not of thy people  Israel,  but cometh out  of a far  country  for  thy name's  [42] (For they shall hear  of thy great  name,  and of thy strong  hand,  and of thy stretched out  arm;)  when he shall come  and pray  toward this house;  [43] Hear  thou in heaven  thy dwelling  place,  and do  according to all that the stranger  calleth  to thee for: that all people  of the earth  may know  thy name,  to fear  thee, as do thy people  Israel;  and that they may know  that this house,  which I have builded,  is called  by thy name.  [44] If thy people  go out  to battle  against their enemy,  whithersoever  thou shalt send  them, and shall pray  unto the LORD  toward  the city  which thou hast chosen,  and toward the house  that I have built  for thy name:  [45] Then hear  thou in heaven  their prayer  and their supplication,  and maintain  their cause.  [46] If they sin  against thee, (for there is no man  that sinneth  not,) and thou be angry  with them, and deliver  them to the enemy,  so that they carry them away  unto  the land  of the enemy,  far  or near;  [47] Yet if they shall bethink  themselves in the land  whither they were carried captives,  and repent,  and make supplication  unto thee in the land  of them that carried them captives,  saying,  We have sinned,  and have done perversely,  we have committed wickedness;  [48] And so return  unto thee with all their heart,  and with all their soul,  in the land  of their enemies,  which led them away captive,  and pray  unto thee toward  their land,  which thou gavest  unto their fathers,  the city  which thou hast chosen,  and the house  which I have built  for thy name:  [49] Then hear  thou their prayer  and their supplication  in heaven  thy dwelling  place,  and maintain  their cause,  [50] And forgive  thy people  that have sinned  against thee, and all their transgressions  wherein they have transgressed  against thee, and give  them compassion  before  them who carried them captive,  that they may have compassion  on them: [51] For they be thy people,  and thine inheritance,  which thou broughtest forth  out of Egypt,  from the midst  of the furnace  of iron:  [52] That thine eyes  may be open  unto the supplication  of thy servant,  and unto the supplication  of thy people  Israel,  to hearken  unto them in all that they call  [53] For thou didst separate  them from among all the people  of the earth,  to be thine inheritance,  as thou spakest  by the hand  of Moses  thy servant,  when thou broughtest  our fathers  out of Egypt,  O Lord