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1 Kings 8:38

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When all your people Israel pray and ask for help, as they acknowledge their pain and spread out their hands toward this temple,

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Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in front of the entire assembly of Israel and spread out his hands toward the sky.

“The time will come when the land suffers from a famine, a plague, blight and disease, or a locust invasion, or when their enemy lays siege to the cities of the land, or when some other type of plague or epidemic occurs.

then listen from your heavenly dwelling place, forgive their sin, and act favorably toward each one based on your evaluation of his motives. (Indeed you are the only one who can correctly evaluate the motives of all people.)

When all your people Israel pray and ask for help, as they acknowledge their intense pain and spread out their hands toward this temple,

“Therefore, I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

Why are you depressed, O my soul? Why are you upset? Wait for God! For I will again give thanks to my God for his saving intervention.

I am depressed, so I will pray to you while I am trapped here in the region of the upper Jordan, from Hermon, from Mount Mizar.

I will pray to God, my high ridge: “Why do you ignore me? Why must I walk around mourning because my enemies oppress me?”

Pray to me when you are in trouble! I will deliver you, and you will honor me!”

When he calls out to me, I will answer him. I will be with him when he is in trouble; I will rescue him and bring him honor.

Moses said to him, “When I leave the city I will spread my hands to the Lord, the thunder will cease, and there will be no more hail, so that you may know that the earth belongs to the Lord.

The heart knows its own bitterness, and with its joy no one else can share.

When you spread out your hands in prayer, I look the other way; when you offer your many prayers, I do not listen, because your hands are covered with blood.

Perhaps the Lord your God will hear all these things the chief adviser has spoken on behalf of his master, the king of Assyria, who sent him to taunt the living God. When the Lord your God hears, perhaps he will punish him for the things he has said. So pray for this remnant that remains.’”

Let the priests, those who serve the Lord, weep from the vestibule all the way back to the altar. Let them say, “Have pity, O Lord, on your people; please do not turn over your inheritance to be mocked, to become a proverb among the nations. Why should it be said among the peoples, “Where is their God?”

If, however, the disease breaks out on the skin so that the disease covers all the skin of the person with the infection from his head to his feet, as far as the priest can see,

I thought I had been banished from your sight, that I would never again see your holy temple!

Wretched man that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?

Do not be anxious about anything. Instead, in every situation, through prayer and petition with thanksgiving, tell your requests to God.




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