¹⁶ I have chosen^(A) and consecrated this temple so that my Name may be there forever. My eyes and my heart will always be there.

“I have heard^(A) the prayer and plea you have made before me; I have consecrated this temple, which you have built, by putting my Name^(B) there forever. My eyes^(C) and my heart will always be there.

²⁹ May your eyes be open^(A) toward^(B) this temple night and day, this place of which you said, ‘My Name^(C) shall be there,’ so that you will hear the prayer your servant prays toward this place.

¹³ He is the one who will build a house^(A) for my Name,^(B) and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.^(C)

⁹ but if you return to me and obey my commands, then even if your exiled people are at the farthest horizon, I will gather^(A) them from there and bring them to the place I have chosen as a dwelling for my Name.’^(B)