1 Kings 8:26-54

26 aNow therefore, O God of Israel, let your word be confirmed, which you have spoken to your servant David my father.

27“But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, bheaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you; how much less this house that I have built! 28Yet have regard to the prayer of your servant and to his plea, O Lord my God, listening to the cry and to the prayer that your servant prays before you this day, 29 cthat your eyes may be open night and day toward this house, the place of which you have said, d‘My name shall be there,’ that you may listen to the prayer that your servant offers toward this place. 30And listen to the plea of your servant and of your people Israel, when they pray toward this place. And listen in heaven your dwelling place, and when you hear, forgive.

31“If a man sins against his neighbor and is made to take ean oath and comes and swears his oath before your altar in this house, 32then hear in heaven and act and judge your servants, fcondemning the guilty by bringing his conduct on his own head, and vindicating the righteous by rewarding him according to his righteousness.

33 g“When your people Israel are defeated before the enemy because they have sinned against you, and hif they turn again to you and acknowledge your name and pray and plead with you in this house, 34then hear in heaven and forgive the sin of your people Israel and bring them again to the land that you gave to their fathers.

35 i“When heaven is shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against you, if they pray toward this place and acknowledge your name and turn from their sin, when you afflict them, 36then hear in heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel, when jyou teach them kthe good way in which they should walk, and grant rain upon your land, which you have given to your people as an inheritance.

37 l“If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence or blight or mildew or locust or caterpillar, if their enemy besieges them in the land at their gates,
Septuagint, Syriac  in any of their cities
whatever plague, whatever sickness there is,
38whatever prayer, whatever plea is made by any man or by all your people Israel, each knowing the affliction of his own heart and stretching out his hands toward this house, 39then hear in heaven your dwelling place and forgive and act and render to each whose heart you know, according to all his ways ( nfor you, you only, know the hearts of all the children of mankind), 40that they may fear you oall the days that they live in the land that you gave to our fathers.

41“Likewise, when a foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, comes from a far country for your name’s sake 42(for they shall hear of your great name pand your mighty hand, and of your outstretched arm), when he comes and prays toward this house, 43hear in heaven your dwelling place and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to you, in order qthat all the peoples of the earth may know your name and rfear you, as do your people Israel, and that they may know that this house that I have built is called by your name.

44“If your people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to the Lord stoward the city that you have chosen and the house that I have built for your name, 45then hear in heaven their prayer and their plea, and maintain their cause.

46“If they sin against you— tfor there is no one who does not sin—and you are angry with them and give them to an enemy, so that they are carried away captive uto the land of the enemy, far off or near, 47yet vif they turn their heart in the land to which they have been carried captive, and repent and plead with you in the land of their captors, saying, w‘We have sinned and have acted perversely and wickedly,’ 48 xif they repent with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies, who carried them captive, and pray to you ytoward their land, which you gave to their fathers, the city that you have chosen, and the house that I have built for your name, 49then hear in heaven your dwelling place their prayer and their plea, and maintain their cause 50and forgive your people who have sinned against you, and all their transgressions that they have committed against you, and zgrant them compassion in the sight of those who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them 51( aafor they are your people, and your heritage, which you brought out of Egypt, abfrom the midst of the iron furnace). 52 acLet your eyes be open to the plea of your servant and to the plea of your people Israel, giving ear to them whenever they call to you. 53For you separated them from among all the peoples of the earth to be your heritage, adas you declared through Moses your servant, when you brought our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord God.”

Solomon’s Benediction

54 aeNow as Solomon finished offering all this prayer and plea to the Lord, he arose from before the altar of the Lord, where he had afknelt with hands outstretched toward heaven.

Daniel 9:18-19

18 agO my God, incline your ear and hear. Open your eyes and see ahour desolations, and aithe city that is called by your name. For we do not present our pleas before you because of our righteousness, but because of your great mercy. 19O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive. O Lord, pay attention and act. ajDelay not, akfor your own sake, O my God, because alyour city and amyour people are called by your name.”

Matthew 26:39

39And going a little farther he fell on his face anand prayed, saying, My Father, if it be possible, let aothis cup pass from me; apnevertheless, not as I will, but as you will.”

Matthew 26:42

42Again, for the second time, he went away and prayed, My Father, if this cannot pass unless I drink it, aqyour will be done.”

Matthew 26:44

44So, leaving them again, he went away and prayed for arthe third time, saying the same words again.
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