22And Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD before all the assembly of Israel, and he spread his palms toward heaven.23And he said, "O LORD, God of Israel, there is nothing like you as God in heaven above and upon the land beneath, keeping the covenant and the kindness to your servants who walk before you with all their heart."24which you kept for your servant David my father, that which you spoke to him; you spoke with your lips, and with your hand you fulfilled it, as on this day.25And now, O LORD, God of Israel, keep to your servant David my father that which you spoke to him, saying, 'A man shall not be cut off from before me sitting upon the throne of Israel, except if your sons keep their way to walk before me as you walked before me.'26And now, O God of Israel, let your word be faithful, please, that which you spoke to your servant David my father.27For truly, does God dwell upon the land? Behold, the heaven and the heaven of the heaven cannot sustain you, also this house which I built.28And turn to the prayer of your servant and to his supplication, O LORD my God, to hear the cry and the prayer which your servant prays before you this day.29That your eyes may be open toward this house night and day, toward the place of which you said, 'My name shall be there,' to hear the prayer that your servant prays toward this place.30And hear the supplication of your servant and of your people Israel, which they pray toward this place; and hear from the place of your dwelling, from heaven; and when you hear, forgive.31If a man sins against his neighbor and an oath is laid on him to make him swear, and he comes and swears his oath before your altar in this house,32Then hear in heaven and act and judge your servants, declaring the wicked guilty and bringing his way on his own head, and justifying the righteous by giving to him according to his righteousness.33When your people Israel are struck before an enemy because they sin against you, and they return to you and give thanks to your name and pray and entreat you in this house,34Then hear in heaven and forgive the sin of your people Israel and restore them to the land which you gave to their fathers.35When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain because they sin against you, if they pray toward this place and give thanks to your name and turn from their sin because you afflict them,36Then hear in heaven and forgive the sin of your servants and of your people Israel, for you teach them the good way in which they should walk, and give rain upon your land which you gave to your people for an inheritance.37If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, blight, mildew, locust, or caterpillar; if their enemy besieges them in the land of their gates, whatever plague, whatever sickness;38Every prayer, every supplication which belongs to any man, to all your people Israel, which a man knows as the plague of his heart, and he spreads his palms toward this house.39And you hear in heaven, the foundation of your dwelling, and forgive and do and give to the man according to all his ways, which you know his heart, for you alone know the heart of all the sons of man.40Because they fear you all the days which they are alive upon the face of the land which you gave to our fathers.41And also to the foreigner who is not from your people Israel, he comes from a distant land because of your name.42For they hear your great name and your strong hand and your stretched arm, and they come and pray to this house.43You hear in heaven, the foundation of your dwelling, and do according to all which the foreigner calls to you, so that all the peoples of the land may know your name, to fear you like your people Israel, and to know that your name is called upon this house which I built.44For your people come out to battle upon their enemy in the way which you send them, and they pray to the LORD by the way of the city which you chose and the house which I built to your name.45And you hear in heaven their prayer and their supplication and do their justice.46For they sin against you—for there is no man who does not sin—and you are angry with them and give them before an enemy, and their captors take them captive to a distant or near land of the enemy.47And they return to their heart in the land where they were taken captive there, and they return and entreat you in the land of their captors, saying, "We sinned and we perverted and we were wicked."48And they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies which took them captive, and they pray to you by the way of their land which you gave to their fathers, the city which you chose and the house which I built to your name.49And you hear in heaven, the foundation of your dwelling, their prayer and their supplication and do their justice.50And forgive your people who sinned against you and all their transgressions which they transgressed against you, and give them to compassion before their captors so that they may have compassion on them.51For they are your people and your inheritance, which you brought out from Egypt from the midst of the iron furnace.52To have your eyes open to the supplication of your servant and to the supplication of your people Israel, to hear them in all their calling to you.53For you separated them to you for an inheritance from all the peoples of the land, as you spoke by the hand of Moses your servant, when you brought our fathers out from Egypt, O Lord GOD.54And it was, when Solomon finished praying to the LORD all this prayer and this supplication, that he arose from before the altar of the LORD, from bowing upon his knees with his palms spread toward heaven.55And he stood and blessed all the assembly of Israel with a great voice, saying,56"Blessed be the LORD who gave rest to his people Israel according to all which he spoke; not one word fell from all his pleasant word which he spoke by the hand of Moses his servant."57"May the LORD our God be with us as he was with our fathers; may he not leave us and may he not forsake us."58To incline our heart to him, to walk in all his ways and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments which he commanded our fathers.59And may these words which I entreated before the LORD be near to the LORD our God by day and night, to do justice to his servant and justice to his people Israel, a word day by day.60So that all the peoples of the land may know that the LORD, he is the God; there is none else.61And may your heart be complete with the LORD our God, to walk in his statutes and to keep his commandments as on this day.