Catholic Public Domain Version
"And now, O Lord God of Israel, establish your words, which you spoke to your servant David, my father. "
— 1 Kings 8:26, Catholic Public Domain Version
“And now, O God of Israel, let thy word, I pray thee, be verified, which thou spakest unto thy servant David my father.”
“Now therefore, O God of Israel, let thy word, I pray thee, be verified, which thou spakest unto thy servant David my father. ”
“"Now therefore, God of Israel, please let your word be verified, which you spoke to your servant David my father.”
“Now, O God of Israel, may the promise you made to your servant, my father David, be realized.”
“And now, Lord God of Israel, let thy words be established, which thou hast spoken to thy servant David, my father.”
“So now, O God of Israel, it is my prayer that you will make your word come true which you said to your servant David, my father.”
“And now, O God of Israel, let thy word, I pray thee, be verified, which thou spakest unto thy servant David my father.”
And he said: “Lord God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven above, nor on the earth below. You preserve covenant and mercy with your servants, who walk before you with all their heart.
You have fulfilled, for your servant David, my father, that which you said to him. With your mouth, you spoke; and with your hands, you completed; just as this day proves.
Now therefore, O Lord God of Israel, fulfill, for your servant David, my father, that which you spoke to him, saying, ‘There shall not be taken away from you a man before me, who may sit upon the throne of Israel, if only your sons will guard their way, so that they walk before me, just as you have walked in my sight.’
And now, O Lord God of Israel, establish your words, which you spoke to your servant David, my father.
Is it, then, to be understood that truly God would dwell upon the earth? For if heaven, and the heavens of heavens, are not able to contain you, how much less this house, which I have built?
Yet look with favor upon the prayer of your servant and upon his petitions, O Lord, my God. Listen to the hymn and the prayer, which your servant prays before you this day,
so that your eyes may be open over this house, night and day, over the house about which you said, ‘My name shall be there,’ so that you may heed the prayer that your servant is praying in this place to you.