2 Chronicles 6:13-42

ECB(i) 13 for Shelomoh worked a copper laver, five cubits long and five cubits wide and three cubits high and gives it midst the court: and he stands thereon and kneels on his knees in front of all the congregation of Yisra El and spreads his palms toward the heavens; 14 and says, O Yah Veh Elohim of Yisra El, - no Elohim like you in the heavens or in the earth; who guards covenant and mercies your servants who walk at your face with all their hearts: 15 who, for your servant David my father, guards what you worded him - worded with your mouth and fulfill with your hand - as this day. 16 And now, O Yah Veh Elohim of Yisra El, guard with your servant David my father what you worded him, saying, There is not cut off to you a man at my face to settle on the throne of Yisra El; only, if your sons guard their way to walk in my torah as you walk at my face: 17 and now, O Yah Veh Elohim of Yisra El, amen the word you worded to your servant David. 18 Is it true, O Elohim, that you settle with humanity on the earth? Behold, the heavens and the heavens of the heavens contain you not; how much less this house I build! 19 Face the prayer of your servant and his supplication, O Yah Veh my Elohim; hearken to the shout and the prayer your servant prays at your face: 20 that your eyes be open on this house by day and night - on the place whereof you say that you set your name there; to hearken to the prayer your servant prays toward this place: 21 hearken to the supplications your servant and your people Yisra El, pray toward this place: hear from the place of your settlement - from the heavens; and when you hear, forgive. 22 If a man sins against his friend and an oath is laid on him to oath, and the oath comes at the face of your sacrifice altar in this house; 23 then hear from the heavens and work and judge your servants; and turn back the wicked and give his way on his own head; and justify the just and give him according to his justness. 24 And if your people Yisra El be smitten at the face of the enemy because they sin against you; and return and spread hands to your name and pray and ask charism at your face in this house; 25 then hear from the heavens and forgive the sin of your people Yisra El; and return them to the soil you gave them and their fathers. 26 When the heavens restrain, and rain not, because they sin against you; yet when they pray toward this place and spread hands to your name and turn from their sin, and you humble them; 27 then hear from the heavens, and forgive the sin of your servants and of your people Yisra El; and direct them the good way to walk; and give rain on the land you gave to your people for an inheritance. 28 If famine becomes in the land; if pestilence becomes; if blasting or pale green becomes; locusts or caterpillers; if their enemies tribulate them in the land of their portals; whatever plague or whatever disease becomes: 29 then whatever prayer or whatever supplication becomes for any human or of all your people Yisra El; when man knows his own plague and his own sorrow and spreads his palms in this house: 30 then hear from the heavens the place of your settlement and forgive and give to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know - for you only know the hearts of the sons of humanity: 31 so that they awe you to walk in your ways all the days they live on the face of the soil you gave to our fathers. 32 And also, concerning the stranger, who is not of your people Yisra El, who comes from a far land for sake of your great name and your strong hand and your spread arm - if they come and pray in this house 33 then hear from the heavens - even the place of your settlement; and work according to all for which the stranger calls to you; that all people of the earth may know your name and awe you, as your people Yisra El; and know that this house I built is called by your name. 34 If your people go to war against their enemies by the way you send them; and they pray to you by the way of this city you chose and the house I built for your name; 35 then hear from the heavens their prayer and their supplication and work their judgment. 36 If they sin against you, - there is no human who sins not and you anger over them; and give them over at the face of their enemies and they capture them to a land far off or near; 37 and they turn back their heart in the land they are captured; and turn and pray in the land of their captivity, and say, We sinned, we distorted and dealt wickedly: 38 if they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity where they captured them; and pray in the way of the land you gave their fathers and the city you chose and the house I built for your name: 39 then hear from the heavens from the place of your settlement their prayer and their supplications and work their judgment and forgive your people who sin against you. 40 Now, my Elohim, I beseech you, that your eyes open and your ears hearken to the prayer in this place. 41 And now rise, O Yah Veh Elohim, into your rest - you and the ark of your strength: your priests, O Yah Veh Elohim, enrobe with salvation and your mercied cheer in goodness. 42 O Yah Veh Elohim, turn not away the face of your anointed: remember the mercies of David your servant.