Now, my God, may Your eyes be open and Your ears attentive to the prayer offered in this place.
Parallel translations
- WEB “Now, my God, let, I beg you, your eyes be open, and let your ears be attentive, to the prayer that is made in this place.
- KJV Now, my God, let, I beseech thee, thine eyes be open, and let thine ears be attent unto the prayer that is made in this place.
- NKJV Now, my God, I pray, let Your eyes be open and let Your ears be attentive to the prayer made in this place.
- NASB “Now, my God, please, let Your eyes be open and Your ears attentive to the prayer offered in this place.
- NLT “O my God, may your eyes be open and your ears attentive to all the prayers made to you in this place.
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Quick answer
Solomon asked God to keep his eyes open and ears attentive to prayer made in this place. He summed up his plea for God's continual attention to prayer.
Overview
Solomon closed his petitions by asking God to remain watchful and attentive to the prayers offered at the temple. This expressed enduring confidence in God's willingness to hear his people. The assurance that God attends to our prayers is grounded for believers in Christ, through whom we have constant access to the Father.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 15
- Ps 116:2Because He has inclined His ear to me, I will call on Him as long as I live.
- 2 Chr 7:15Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place.
- Neh 1:6let Your eyes be open and Your ears attentive to hear the prayer that I, Your servant, now pray before You day and night for Your servants, the Israelites. I confess the sins that we Israelites have committed against You. Both I and my father’s house have sinned.
- Ps 17:1A prayer of David. Hear, O LORD, my righteous plea; listen to my cry. Give ear to my prayer—it comes from lips free of deceit.
- Neh 1:11O Lord, may Your ear be attentive to my prayer and to the prayers of Your servants who delight to revere Your name. Give Your servant success this day, I pray, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man.” (At that time I was the cupbearer to the king.)
- Isa 37:17Incline Your ear, O LORD, and hear; open Your eyes, O LORD, and see. Listen to all the words that Sennacherib has sent to defy the living God.
- Ps 31:2Incline Your ear to me; come quickly to my rescue. Be my rock of refuge, the stronghold of my deliverance.
- 2 Chr 16:9For the eyes of the LORD roam to and fro over all the earth, to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose hearts are fully devoted to Him. You have acted foolishly in this matter. From now on, therefore, you will be at war.”
- Ps 7:3O LORD my God, if I have done this, if injustice is on my hands,
- Dan 9:16–19O Lord, in keeping with all Your righteous acts, I pray that Your anger and wrath may turn away from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain; for because of our sins and the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people are a reproach to all around us.
- Ps 13:3Consider me and respond, O LORD my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death,
- Ps 88:1A song. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. For the choirmaster. According to Mahalath Leannoth. A Maskil of Heman the Ezrahite. O LORD, the God of my salvation, day and night I cry out before You.
- Ps 34:15The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous, and His ears are inclined to their cry.
- Ps 22:1–2For the choirmaster. To the tune of “The Doe of the Dawn.” A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Why are You so far from saving me, so far from my words of groaning?
- 1 Kgs 8:52May Your eyes be open to the pleas of Your servant and of Your people Israel, and may You listen to them whenever they call to You.
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