1 Kings 8:49

King James Version (1611 Edition)

Then heare thou their prayer and their supplication in heauen thy dwelling place, and mainteine 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,

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

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;

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 And Solomon stood before the Altar of the Lord, in the presence of all the Congregation of Israel, and spread foorth his handes toward heauen: ²³ And hee said, Lord God of Israel, there is no God like thee, in heauen aboue, or on earth beneath, who keepest couenant and mercy with thy seruants, that walke before thee with all their heart: ²⁴ Who hast kept with thy seruant Dauid my father that thou promisedst him: thou spakest also with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled it with thine hand, as it is this day. ²⁵ Therefore now Lord God of Israel, keepe with thy seruant Dauid my father, that thou promisedst him, saying; There shall not faile thee a man in my sight to sit on the Throne of Israel; so that thy children take heede to their way, that they walke before me as thou hast walked before me: ²⁶ And now, O God of Israel, let thy worde (I pray thee) bee verified, which thou spakest vnto thy seruant Dauid my father. ²⁷ But will God indeede dwell on the earth? Behold, the heauen, and heauen of heauens cannot conteine thee: how much lesse this House that I haue builded? ²⁸ Yet haue thou respect vnto the prayer of thy seruant, and to his supplication, O Lord my God, to hearken vnto the crie and to the prayer, which thy seruant prayeth before thee to day: ²⁹ That thine eyes may be open toward this house, night and day, euen toward the place of which thou hast said, My Name shall be there: that thou mayest hearken vnto the prayer which thy seruant shall make towards this place. ³⁰ And hearken thou to the supplication of thy seruant, and of thy people Israel, when they shall pray towards this place: and heare thou in heauen thy dwelling place, and when thou hearest, forgiue. ³¹ If any man trespasse against his neighbour, and an oath be laid vpon him to cause him to sweare, and the oath come before thine Altar in this house:

Bible Verse Review
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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.