1 Kings 8:49

Complete Jewish Bible

then, in heaven where you live, hear their prayer and plea, uphold their cause,

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
may you hear in heaven, your dwelling place,their prayer and petition and uphold their cause.

Hebrew Names Version
then hear you their prayer and their supplication in heaven, your dwelling-place, and maintain their cause;

King James Version
Then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven thy dwelling place, and maintain their cause,

English Standard Version
then hear in heaven your dwelling place their prayer and their plea, and maintain their cause

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

New English Translation
then listen from your heavenly dwelling place to their prayers for help and vindicate them.

Amplified Bible
then hear their prayer and their supplication in heaven Your dwelling place, and maintain their right and defend their cause,

New American Standard Bible
then hear their prayer and their pleading in heaven, Your dwelling place, and maintain their cause,

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then heare thou their prayer and their supplication in heauen thy dwelling place, and iudge their cause,

Legacy Standard Bible
then listen in heaven Your dwelling place to their prayer and their supplication, and do justice for them,

Darby Translation
then hear thou in the heavens, the settled place of thy dwelling, their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their right;

Easy-to-Read Version
Please listen to their prayers from your home in heaven, and do what is right.

George Lamsa Translation
Then hear thou in heaven, thy dwelling place, their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause,

Good News Translation
then listen to their prayers. In your home in heaven hear them and be merciful to them.

Lexham English Bible
then you shall hear in heaven, the place of your dwelling, their prayer and their plea, and you shall vindicate them.

Literal Translation
then You shall hear their prayer and their supplication in Heaven Your dwellingplace, and shall perform their cause,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
then heare thou their prayer and supplicacion in heauen, from the seate of thy dwellynge, and execute iudgment for them,

American Standard Version
then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven thy dwelling-place, and maintain their cause;

Bible in Basic English
Then give ear to their prayer and to their cry in heaven your living-place, and see right done to them;

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then heare thou their prayer and supplication in heauen thy dwellyng place, and iudge their cause:

JPS Old Testament (1917)
then hear Thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven Thy dwelling-place, and maintain their cause;

King James Version (1611)
Then heare thou their prayer and their supplication in heauen thy dwelling place, and mainteine their cause,

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
then shalt thou hear from heaven thine established dwelling-place,

English Revised Version
then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven thy dwelling place, and maintain their cause;

Berean Standard Bible
then may You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place, their prayer and petition, and may You uphold their cause.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
in the firmament of thi seete, the preiers of hem, and the bisechingis of hem, and thou shalt make the doom of hem;

Young's Literal Translation
`Then Thou hast heard in the heavens, the settled place of Thy dwelling, their prayer and their supplication, and hast maintained their cause,

Update Bible Version
then you shall hear their prayer and their supplication in heaven your dwelling-place, and maintain their cause;

Webster's Bible Translation
Then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven thy dwelling-place, and maintain their cause,

World English Bible
then hear you their prayer and their supplication in heaven, your dwelling-place, and maintain their cause;

New King James Version
then hear in heaven Your dwelling place their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause,

New Living Translation
then hear their prayers and their petition from heaven where you live, and uphold their cause.

New Life Bible
then hear their prayer in heaven where You are. See that the right thing is done to them.

New Revised Standard
then hear in heaven your dwelling place their prayer and their plea, maintain their cause

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
then wilt thou hearken in the heavens, the settled place of thine abode, unto their prayer, and unto their supplication, - and maintain their cause;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then hear thou in heaven, in the firmament of thy throne, their prayers, and their supplications, and do judgment for them:

Revised Standard Version
then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause

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

Contextual Overview

²² Then Shlomo stood before the altar of Adonai in the presence of the whole community of Isra'el, spread out his hands toward heaven, ²³ and said, " Adonai , God of Isra'el, there is no God like you in heaven above or on earth below. You keep covenant with your servants and show them grace, provided they live in your presence with all their heart. ²⁴ You have kept your promise to your servant David, my father; you spoke with your mouth and fulfilled it with your hand; so it is today. ²⁵ Now therefore, Adonai , God of Isra'el, keep what you promised to your servant David, my father, when you said, ‘You will never lack a man in my presence to sit on the throne of Isra'el, if only your children are careful about what they do, so that they live in my presence, just as you have lived in my presence.' ²⁶ Now therefore, God of Isra'el, please let your word, which you spoke to your servant David, my father, be confirmed. ²⁷ "But can God actually live on the earth? Why, heaven itself, even the heaven of heavens, cannot contain you; so how much less this house I have built? ²⁸ Even so, Adonai my God, pay attention to your servant's prayer and plea, listen to the cry and prayer that your servant is praying before you today, ²⁹ that your eyes will be open toward this house night and day — toward the place concerning which you said, ‘My name will be there' — to listen to the prayer your servant will pray toward this place. ³⁰ Yes, listen to the plea of your servant, and also that of your people Isra'el when they pray toward this place. Hear in heaven where you live; and when you hear, forgive! ³¹ "If a person sins against a fellow member of the community, and he is made to swear under oath, and he comes and swears before your altar in this house;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Then hear: 1 Kings 8:30

cause: or, right, 1 Kings 8:45, 2 Kings 19:19, Zechariah 1:15, Zechariah 1:16

Reciprocal: Psalms 140:12 - the Lord

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then hear thou their prayers, and their supplication, in heaven thy dwellingplace,.... For their deliverance out of captivity: and maintain their cause; plead it, and do them justice, avenge their injuries, and deliver them.