1 Kings 8:45

Bishop's Bible

Heare thou in heauen their prayer and supplication, and iudge their cause.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
may you hear their prayer and petition in heavenand uphold their cause.

Hebrew Names Version
then hear in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.

King James Version
Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.

English Standard Version
then hear in heaven their prayer and their plea, and maintain their cause.

New Century Version
Then hear in heaven their prayers, and do what is right.

New English Translation
then listen from heaven to their prayers for help and vindicate them.

Amplified Bible
then hear in heaven their prayer and their pleading, and maintain their right and defend their cause.

New American Standard Bible
then hear in heaven their prayer and their pleading, and maintain their cause.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Heare thou then in heauen their prayer & their supplication, and iudge their cause.

Legacy Standard Bible
then listen in heaven to their prayer and their supplication, and do justice.

Contemporary English Version
Answer their prayers from heaven and give them victory.

Complete Jewish Bible
then, in heaven, hear their prayer and plea, and uphold their cause.

Darby Translation
then hear thou in the heavens their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their right.

Easy-to-Read Version
Please listen to their prayers from your home in heaven, and help them.

George Lamsa Translation
Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.

Good News Translation
listen to their prayers. Hear them in heaven and give them victory.

Lexham English Bible
then you shall hear in heaven their prayer and their plea, and you shall vindicate them.

Literal Translation
then hear their prayer and their supplication in Heaven, and perform their cause.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
heare thou then their prayer and peticion in heauen, and execute iudgment for them.

American Standard Version
then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.

Bible in Basic English
Give ear in heaven to their prayer and their cry for grace, and see right done to them.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
then hear Thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.

King James Version (1611)
Then heare thou in heauen their prayer & their supplication, and mainteine their cause.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
then shalt thou hear from heaven their supplication and their prayer, and shalt execute judgment for them.

English Revised Version
then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.

Berean Standard Bible
may You hear from heaven their prayer and their plea, and may You uphold their cause.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and thou schalt here in heuene the preyeris of hem, and the bisechyngis of hem, and thou schalt make the doom of hem.

Young's Literal Translation
then Thou hast heard in the heavens their prayer and their supplication, and hast maintained their cause.

Update Bible Version
then you shall hear in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.

Webster's Bible Translation
Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.

World English Bible
then hear in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.

New King James Version
then hear in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.

New Living Translation
then hear their prayers from heaven and uphold their cause.

New Life Bible
then hear their prayer and their cry in heaven. See that the right thing is done to them.

New Revised Standard
then hear in heaven their prayer and their plea, and maintain their cause.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
then wilt thou hear, in the heavens, their prayer and their supplication, - and maintain their cause?

Douay-Rheims Bible
And then hear thou in heaven their prayers, and their supplications, and do judgment for them.

Revised Standard Version
then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
then hear in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.

Contextual Overview

²² Solomon stoode before the aulter of the Lorde in the sight of all the congregation of Israel, and stretched out his handes toward heauen, and sayde: ²³ Lord God of Israel, there is no God like thee in heauen aboue, or in the earth beneath, thou that kepest couenaunt & mercy for thy seruauntes that walke before thee with all their heart. ²⁴ Thou that hast kept with thy seruaut Dauid my father that thou promisedst him: Thou spakest also with thy mouth and hast fulfilled it with thyne hand, as it is come to passe this day. ²⁵ Therfore now Lorde God of Israel, keepe with thy seruaunt Dauid my father that thou promisedst him, saying, Thou shalt not be without a man in my sight to syt on the seate of Israel: so that thy childre take heede to their way, that they walke before me, as thou hast walked in my sight. ²⁶ And now O God of Israel, let thy word be verified which thou spakest vnto thy seruaunt Dauid my father. ²⁷ Wyll God in deede dwell on the earth? Beholde, the heauens and heauens of all heauens are not able to contayne thee: and how should then this house do it that I haue builded? ²⁸ Haue thou therefore respect vnto the prayer of thy seruaunt, and to his supplication O Lorde my God, to heare the crye and prayer which thy seruaunt prayeth before thee this day: ²⁹ That thyne eyes may be open toward this house nyght and day, euen toward this place, of which thou haste said, My name shal be there: That thou mayst hearken vnto the prayer which thy seruaunt prayeth in this place, ³⁰ And regarde thou the supplication of thy seruaunt and of thy people Israel when they pray in this place: and heare thou in heauen thy dwelling place, and when thou hearest haue mercy. ³¹ If any man trespasse against his neyghbour, & there go an oth betweene them, and the one compel the other, and come, swearing before thyne aulter in this house:

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

cause: or, right, Genesis 18:25, Psalms 9:4, Jeremiah 5:28

Reciprocal: Leviticus 13:6 - wash 2 Samuel 15:32 - he worshipped 1 Kings 8:49 - cause 1 Chronicles 5:20 - for they cried 2 Chronicles 6:34 - thy people Psalms 20:2 - from Psalms 140:12 - the Lord

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication,.... For success:

and maintain their cause; do them justice, and avenge their injuries, as the Targum; let it appear that their cause is right, by giving them victory.