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39 Hear them in heaven, where you live.
    Forgive them, and take action.
    Give each person the proper reply.
        (You know what is in their hearts,
            because you alone know what is in the hearts of all people.)
40 Then, as long as they live in the land that you gave to our ancestors,
    they will fear you.

41 “People will hear about your great name,
    mighty hand, and powerful arm.[a]
    So when people who are not Israelites
come from distant countries because of your name

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 8:41 The first sentence of verse 42 (in Hebrew) has been placed in verse 41 to express the complex Hebrew paragraph structure more clearly in English.

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