Catholic Public Domain Version
"And now, O Lord God of Israel, let your word be confirmed that you spoke to your servant David. "
— 2 Chronicles 6:17, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Now then, O Lord God of Israel, let thy word be verified, which thou hast spoken unto thy servant David.”
“Now therefore, O Jehovah, the God of Israel, let thy word be verified, which thou spakest unto thy servant David. ”
“Now therefore, Yahweh, the God of Israel, let your word be verified, which you spoke to your servant David.”
“Now, O LORD God of Israel, may the promise you made to your servant David be realized.”
“And now, Lord God of Israel, let thy word be established which thou hast spoken to thy servant David.”
“So now, O Lord, the God of Israel, make your word come true which you said to your servant David.”
“Now then, O Lord God of Israel, let thy word be verified, which thou hast spoken unto thy servant David.”
he said: “O Lord God of Israel, there is no god like you in heaven or on earth. You preserve covenant and mercy with your servants, who walk before you with all their hearts.
You fulfilled for your servant David, my father, whatsoever you had said to him. And you carried out the deed that you promised with your mouth, just as the present time proves.
Now then, O Lord God of Israel, fulfill for your servant David, my father, whatsoever you said to him, saying: ‘There shall not fail to be a man from you before me, who will sit upon the throne of Israel, yet only if your sons will guard their ways, and will walk in my law, just as you also have walked before me.’
And now, O Lord God of Israel, let your word be confirmed that you spoke to your servant David.
How then is it to be believed that God would dwell with men upon the earth? If heaven and the heavens of the heavens do not contain you, how much less this house that I have built?
But it has been done for this only, so that you may look with favor upon the prayer of your servant, and on his supplication, O Lord my God, and so that you may hear the prayers which your servant pours out before you,
and so that you may open your eyes over this house, day and night, over the place where you promised that your name would be invoked,