⁵⁴ Now when Solomon finished praying this prayer and making supplication to the Lord, he arose from before the altar of the Lord, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to heaven. ⁵⁵ He stood up and blessed all the congregation of Israel with a loud voice, saying,

⁵⁶ “Blessed be the Lord who has given rest to His people Israel according to all that He promised. Not one word of His promises which He gave by the hand of Moses His servant has failed. ⁵⁷ The Lord our God be with us, as He was with our fathers. Let Him neither leave us nor forsake us, ⁵⁸ that He may incline our hearts to Him, to walk in all His ways and to keep His commandments, statutes, and judgments, which He commanded our fathers. ⁵⁹ And let these my words, with which I have made supplication before the Lord, be close to the Lord our God day and night, that He will maintain the cause of His servant and the cause of His people Israel at all times as the situation demands, ⁶⁰ so that all the people of the earth may know that the Lord is God and that there is none else. ⁶¹ Let your hearts, therefore, be perfect with the Lord our God, to walk in His statutes and keep His commandments, as at this day.”