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1 Kings 8:34

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

listen from your home in heaven. Forgive them and bring them back to the land you gave their ancestors.

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In my vision the locusts ate every crop in the land, and I said to the LORD, “Forgive me for asking, but how can the nation survive? It's so weak.”

You need to realize that from the command to rebuild Jerusalem until the coming of the Chosen Leader, it will be seven weeks and another sixty-two weeks. Streets will be built in Jerusalem, and a trench will be dug around the city for protection, but these will be difficult times.

Forgive us! Hurry and do something, not only for your city and your chosen people, but to bring honour to yourself.

You warned us and our leaders that Jerusalem would suffer the worst disaster in human history, and you did exactly as you had threatened.

I am angry with the people of Jerusalem, and I will scatter them in foreign countries. But some day I will bring them back here and let them live in safety.

Some day, Israel and Judah will be my field where my people and their livestock will grow.

Save us, LORD God! Bring us back from among the nations. Let us celebrate and shout in praise of your holy name.

I am your servant, and the people of Israel belong to you. So whenever any of us look towards this temple and pray, answer from your home in heaven and forgive our sins.

The LORD gave the Israelites the land he had promised their ancestors, and they captured it and settled in it.

I will bring you into the land that I solemnly promised Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and it will be yours. I am the LORD!”

I will give you and your family all the land you can see. It will be theirs for ever!

Suppose your people Israel sin against you, and then an enemy defeats them. If they come to this temple and beg for forgiveness,

Suppose your people sin against you, and you punish them by holding back the rain. If they turn towards this temple and pray in your name and stop sinning,

You have forgiven the sin and taken away the guilt of your people.

I have told you everything the LORD your God will do for you, and I've also told you the curses he will put on you if you reject him. He will scatter you in faraway countries, but when you realize that he is punishing you,

that their enemies had pity on them.




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