57 The Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers, that he forsake us not, neither leave us,

58 That he may [a]bow our hearts unto him, that we may walk in all his ways, and keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his laws, which he commanded our fathers.

59 And these my words, which I have prayed before the Lord, be near unto the Lord our God day and night, that he defend the cause of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel [b]always as the matter requireth,

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 8:58 He concludeth that man of himself is enemy unto God, and that all obedience to his Law proceedeth of his mere mercy.
  2. 1 Kings 8:59 Hebrew, the thing of a day in his day.

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