1Ki 8:28-30, 38, 9:3, 2Ch 6:20-42, Psa 27:5, 62:1-3, 74:10, 76:1-3, Isa 37:1 | ESV | STEP | Yet 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 ,

28 Yet 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 ^athat your eyes may be open night and day toward this house, the place of which you have said, ^b‘My name shall be there,’ that you may listen to the prayer that your servant offers toward this place. 30 And 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.

1 Kings 8:38

38 whatever 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,

1 Kings 9:3

3 And the Lord said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your plea, which you have made before me. I have consecrated this house that you have built, ^cby putting my name there forever. ^dMy eyes and my heart will be there for all time.

2 Chronicles 6:20-42

20 ^ethat your eyes may be open day and night toward this house, the place where you have promised to set your name, that you may listen to the prayer that your servant offers toward this place. 21 And listen to the pleas of your servant and of your people Israel, when they pray toward this place. And listen from heaven your dwelling place, ^fand when you hear, forgive.

22 “If a man sins against his neighbor and is made to take an oath and comes and swears his oath before your altar in this house, 23 then hear from heaven and act and judge your servants, repaying the guilty by bringing his conduct on his own head, and vindicating the righteous by rewarding him according to his righteousness.

24 “If your people Israel are defeated before the enemy because they have sinned against you, and they turn again and acknowledge your name and pray and plead with you in this house, 25 ^gthen hear from heaven and forgive the sin of your people Israel and bring them again to the land that you gave to them and to their fathers.

26 ^h“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 ^{▼▼Septuagint, Vulgate; Hebrew answer} them, 27 ^jthen hear in heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel, when you teach them the good way ^{▼▼Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate (compare 1 Kings 8:36); Hebrew toward the good way} in which they should walk, and grant rain upon your land, which you have given to your people as an inheritance.

28 ^l“If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence or blight or mildew or locust or caterpillar, if their enemies besiege them in the land at their gates, whatever plague, whatever sickness there is, 29 whatever prayer, whatever plea is made by any man or by all your people Israel, each knowing his own affliction and his own sorrow and stretching out his hands toward this house, 30 ^mthen hear from heaven your dwelling place and forgive and render to each whose heart you know, according to all his ways, ⁿfor you, you only, know the hearts of the children of mankind, 31 that they may fear you and walk in your ways all the days that they live in the land that you gave to our fathers.

32 “Likewise, when a foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, comes from a far country for the sake of your great name and your mighty hand and your outstretched arm, when he comes and prays toward this house, 33 hear from heaven your dwelling place and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to you, in order that all the peoples of the earth may know your name and fear you, as do your people Israel, and that they may know that this house ^othat I have built is called by your name.

34 “If your people go out to battle against their enemies, by whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to you toward this city that you have chosen and the house that I have built for your name, 35 then hear from heaven their prayer and their plea, and maintain their cause.

36 “If they sin against you— ^pfor 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 to a land far or near, 37 yet if 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 captivity, saying, ‘We have sinned and have acted perversely and wickedly,’ 38 if they repent with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity to which they were carried captive, and pray toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, the city that you have chosen and the house that I have built for your name, 39 then hear from heaven your dwelling place their prayer and their pleas, and maintain their cause and forgive your people who have sinned against you. 40 Now, O my God, ^qlet your eyes be open ^rand your ears attentive to the prayer of this place.

41 “And now arise, O Lord God, and go to your ^sresting place,
you and the ark of your might.
Let your priests, O Lord God, be ^tclothed with salvation,
and let your saints ^urejoice in your goodness.
42 O Lord God, ^vdo not turn away the face of your anointed one!
^wRemember your steadfast love for David your servant.”

Psalms 27:5

5 For he will ^xhide me in his shelter
in the day of trouble;
he will conceal me under the cover of his tent;
he will ^ylift me high upon a rock.

Psalms 62:1-3

My Soul Waits for God Alone

To the choirmaster: according to ^zJeduthun. A Psalm of David.

1 For God alone ^aamy soul ^abwaits in silence;
from him comes my salvation.
2 ^acHe alone is my rock and my salvation,
my ^adfortress; ^aeI shall not be greatly shaken.
3 How long will all of you attack a man
to batter him,
like ^afa leaning wall, a tottering fence?

Psalms 74:10

10 How long, O God, ^agis the foe to scoff?
Is the enemy to revile your name forever?

Psalms 76:1-3

Who Can Stand Before You?

To the choirmaster: with ^ahstringed instruments. A Psalm of ^aiAsaph. A Song.

1 In Judah God is ^ajknown;
his name is great in Israel.
2 His ^akabode has been established in ^alSalem,
his ^amdwelling place in Zion.
3 There he ^anbroke the flashing arrows,
the shield, the sword, and the weapons of war. Selah

Isaiah 37:1

Hezekiah Seeks Isaiah’s Help

1 ^aoAs soon as King Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes and covered himself with sackcloth and went into the house of the Lord.

1 Kings 8:28-30