Translation:Prayer of Solomon
Chapter 1
[edit]1 Lord God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven above, or on earth beneath, who keep covenant and mercy with your servants that walk before you with all their heart:
2 Who has kept with your servant David, my father that you promised him: you speak also with your mouth, and has fulfilled it with your hand, as it is this day.
3 Therefore now, Lord God of Israel, keep with your servant David, my father that you promised him, saying, "There will not fail you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel; so that your children take heed to their way, that they walk before me as you have walked before me.
4 And now, O God of Israel, let your word, I pray you, be verified, which you speak to your servant David, my father.
5 But will God indeed live on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain you; how much less this house that I have built?
6 Yet have you respect to the prayer of your servant, and to his supplication, O Lord my God, to hear to the cry and to the prayer, which thy servant prays before you today:
7 That your eyes may be open to this house night and day, even to the place which you have said, "My name will be there: that you may hear the prayer which your servant will make to this place.
8 And you hear the supplication of your servant, and of your people Israel, when they will pray to this place: and hear you in heaven, your dwelling place: and when you hear, forgive.
9 If anyone sin against his neighbor,and an oath be laid on him to cause him to swear, and the oath come before your altar in this house:
10 Then hear you in heaven, and do, and judge your servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way on his head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.