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then in heaven, the place where you live, hear their prayer for mercy. Do what is right for them.
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Forgive your people, who have sinned against you. [Forgive] all their wrongs when they rebelled against you, and cause those who captured them to have mercy on them
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because they are your own people whom you brought out of Egypt from the middle of an iron smelter.
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"May your eyes always see my plea and your people Israel's plea so that you will listen to them whenever they call on you.
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After all, you, LORD God, set them apart from all the people of the world to be your own as you promised through your servant Moses when you brought our ancestors out of Egypt."
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When Solomon finished praying this prayer for mercy to the LORD, he stood in front of the LORD's altar, where he had been kneeling with his hands stretched out toward heaven.
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Then he stood and in a loud voice blessed the entire assembly of Israel,
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"Thanks be to the LORD! He has given his people Israel rest, as he had promised. None of the good promises he made through his servant Moses has failed to come true.
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May the LORD our God be with us as he was with our ancestors. May he never leave us or abandon us.
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May he bend our hearts toward him. Then we will follow him and keep his commands, laws, and rules, which he commanded our ancestors [to keep].
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May these words which I have prayed to the LORD be near the LORD our God day and night. Then he will give me and his people Israel justice every day as it is needed.