38 whatever prayer or plea [a]is offered by any person or by all Your people Israel, [b]each knowing the affliction of his own heart, and spreading his [c]hands toward this house;

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 8:38 Lit takes place
  2. 1 Kings 8:38 Lit who know each
  3. 1 Kings 8:38 Lit palms

38 and when a prayer or plea is made by anyone among your people Israel—being aware of the afflictions of their own hearts, and spreading out their hands(A) toward this temple—

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38 (A)if they return to You with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, where they have been taken captive, and pray toward their land which You have given to their fathers and the city which You have chosen, and toward the house which I have built for Your name,

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38 and if they turn back to you with all their heart and soul in the land of their captivity where they were taken, and pray toward the land you gave their ancestors, toward the city you have chosen and toward the temple I have built for your Name;

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But as for me, (A)by Your abundant graciousness I will enter Your house,
[a]At Your holy temple I will (B)bow in (C)reverence for You.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 5:7 Or Toward

But I, by your great love,
    can come into your house;
in reverence(A) I bow down(B)
    toward your holy temple.(C)

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