Catholic Public Domain Version
"Also, my eyes will be open, and my ears will be attentive, to the prayer of him who shall pray in this place. "
— 2 Chronicles 7:15, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent unto the prayer that is made in this place.”
“Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent, unto the prayer that is made in this place. ”
“Now my eyes shall be open, and my ears attentive, to the prayer that is made in this place.”
“Now I will be attentive and responsive to the prayers offered in this place.”
“My eyes also shall be open, and my ears attentive to the prayer of him that shall pray in this place.”
“Now my eyes will be open and my ears awake to the prayers made in this place.”
“Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent unto the prayer that is made in this place.”
Then the Lord appeared to him by night, and said: “I have heard your prayer, and I have chosen this place for myself as a house of sacrifice.
If I close up heaven, so that no rain will fall, or if I order and instruct the locust to devour the land, or if I send a pestilence among my people,
and if my people, over whom my name has been invoked, being converted, will have petitioned me and sought my face, and will have done penance for their wicked ways, then I will heed them from heaven, and I will forgive their sins, and I will heal their land.
Also, my eyes will be open, and my ears will be attentive, to the prayer of him who shall pray in this place.
For I have chosen and sanctified this place, so that my name may be there continually, and so that my eyes and my heart may remain there, for all days.
And as for you, if you will walk before me, just as your father David walked, and if you will act in accord with all that I have instructed you, and if you will observe my justices and judgments,
I will raise up the throne of your kingdom, just as I promised to your father David, saying: ‘There shall not be taken away a man from your stock who will be ruler in Israel.’