1 Kings 8:49

Douay-Rheims Bible

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

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;

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;

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 sight of the assembly of Israel, and spread forth his hands towards heaven, ²³ And said: Lord God of Israel, there is no God like thee, in heaven above, or on the earth beneath: who keepest covenant and mercy with thy servants, that have walked before thee with all their heart: ²⁴ Who hast kept with thy servant David, my father, what thou hast promised him: with thy mouth thou didst speak, and with thy hands thou hast performed, as this day proveth. ²⁵ Now, therefore, O Lord God of Israel, keep with thy servant David, my father, what thou hast spoken to him, saying: There shall not be taken away of thee a man in my sight, to sit on the throne of Israel: yet so that thy children take heed to their way, that they walk before me as thou hast walked in my sight. ²⁶ And now, Lord God of Israel, let thy words be established, which thou hast spoken to thy servant David, my father. ²⁷ Is it then to be thought that God should indeed dwell upon earth? for if heaven, and the heavens of heavens, cannot contain thee, how much less this house which I have built? ²⁸ But have regard to the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplications, O Lord, my God: hear the hymn and the prayer, which thy servant prayeth before thee this day: ²⁹ That thy eyes may be open upon this house, night and day: upon the house of which thou hast said: My name shall be there: that thou mayst hearken to the prayer which thy servant prayeth, in this place to thee: ³⁰ That thou mayst hearken to the supplication of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, whatsoever they shall pray for in this place, and hear them in the place of thy dwelling in heaven; and when thou hearest, shew them mercy. ³¹ If any man trespass against his neighbour, and have an oath upon him, wherewith he is bound, and come, because of the oath, before thy altar, to thy 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.