that your eyes may be open night and day toward this house, the place of which you said, ‘My name shall be there,’ that you may heed the prayer that your servant prays toward this place.
1 Kings 8:52 - New Revised Standard Version Let your eyes be open to the plea of your servant, and to the plea of your people Israel, listening to them whenever they call to you. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 for unto thee. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Let Your eyes be open to the supplication of Your servant and of Your people Israel, to hearken to them in all for which they call to You. American Standard Version (1901) that thine eyes may be open unto the supplication of thy servant, and unto the supplication of thy people Israel, to hearken unto them whensoever they cry unto thee. Common English Bible Open your eyes to your servant’s request and to the request of your people Israel. Hear them whenever they cry out to you. Catholic Public Domain Version So may your eyes be open to the supplication of your servant and of your people Israel. And so may you heed them in all the things about which they will call upon you. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version That thy eyes may be open to the supplication of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, to hear them in all things for which they shall call upon thee. |
that your eyes may be open night and day toward this house, the place of which you said, ‘My name shall be there,’ that you may heed the prayer that your servant prays toward this place.
For you have separated them from among all the peoples of the earth, to be your heritage, just as you promised through Moses, your servant, when you brought our ancestors out of Egypt, O Lord God.”
Now, O my God, let your eyes be open and your ears attentive to prayer from this place.
The Lord is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.
For you, O Lord, are good and forgiving, abounding in steadfast love to all who call on you.