³ The Lord said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your plea that you made before me; I have consecrated this house that you have built and put my name there forever; my eyes and my heart will be there for all time.^(A)

⁵ “Turn back and say to Hezekiah prince of my people: Thus says the Lord, the God of your ancestor David: I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; indeed, I will heal you; on the third day you shall go up to the house of the Lord.^(A)

²⁹ that your eyes may be open night and day toward this house, the place of which you said, ‘My name shall be there,’ that you may heed the prayer that your servant prays toward this place.^(A)

¹⁴ And this is the boldness we have in him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.

Psalm 116

Thanksgiving for Recovery from Illness

¹² a land that the Lord your God looks after. The eyes of the Lord your God are always on it, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year.

⁴⁰ Now, O my God, let your eyes be open and your ears attentive to prayer from this place.^(A)

³¹ He said, ‘Cornelius, your prayer has been heard, and your alms have been remembered before God.