Now, my God, I pray, let Your eyes be open and let Your ears be attentive to the prayer made 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.
- BSB Now, my God, may Your eyes be open and Your ears attentive to the prayer offered 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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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 turned his ear to me, therefore I will call on him as long as I live.
- 2 Chr 7:15Now my eyes will be open my ears attentive to prayer that is made in this place.
- Neh 1:6Let your ear now be attentive, and your eyes open, that you may listen to the prayer of your servant, which I pray before you at this time, day and night, for the children of Israel your servants, while I confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against you. Yes, I and my father’s house have sinned.
- Ps 17:1A Prayer by David. Hear, Yahweh, my righteous plea; Give ear to my prayer, that doesn’t go out of deceitful lips.
- Neh 1:11Lord, I beg you, let your ear be attentive now to the prayer of your servant, and to the prayer of your servants, who delight to fear your name; and please prosper your servant today, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man.” Now I was cup bearer to the king.
- Isa 37:17Turn your ear, Yahweh, and hear. Open your eyes, Yahweh, and behold. Hear all of the words of Sennacherib, who has sent to defy the living God.
- Ps 31:2Bow down your ear to me. Deliver me speedily. Be to me a strong rock, a house of defense to save me.
- 2 Chr 16:9For Yahweh’s eyes run back and forth throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. You have done foolishly in this; for from now on you will have wars.”
- Ps 7:3Yahweh, my God, if I have done this, if there is iniquity in my hands,
- Dan 9:16–19Lord, according to all your righteousness, let your anger and please let your wrath be turned away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain; because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people have become a reproach to all who are around us.
- Ps 13:3Behold, and answer me, Yahweh, my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death;
- Ps 88:1A Song. A Psalm by the sons of Korah. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “The Suffering of Affliction.” A contemplation by Heman, the Ezrahite. Yahweh, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you.
- Ps 34:15Yahweh’s eyes are toward the righteous. His ears listen to their cry.
- Ps 22:1–2For the Chief Musician; set to “The Doe of the Morning.” A Psalm by David. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?
- 1 Kgs 8:52that your eyes may be open to the supplication of your servant, and to the supplication of your people Israel, to listen to them whenever they cry to you.
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