H9002–/וְ–v

Give ear in heaven to their prayer and their cry for grace, and see right done to them.

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”

And if they take thought, in the land where they are prisoners, and are turned again to you, crying out in prayer to you in that land, and saying, We are sinners, we have done wrong, we have done evil;

וְהֶעֱוִ֖ינוּ (וְ) ve. “and”

And with all their heart and soul are turned again to you, in the land of those who took them prisoners, and make their prayer to you, turning their eyes to this land which you gave to their fathers, and to the town which you took for yourself, and the h

וּבְכָל־ (וּ) u. “and”וְהַבַּ֖יִת (וְ) ve. “and”

Then give ear to their prayer and to their cry in heaven your living-place, and see right done to them;

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”

Answering with forgiveness the people who have done wrong against you, and overlooking the evil which they have done against you; let those who made them prisoners be moved with pity for them, and have pity on them;

וּלְכָל־ (וּ) u. “and”

For they are your people and your heritage, which you took out of Egypt, out of the iron fireplace;

וְנַחֲלָתְךָ֖ (וְ) ve. “and”

Let your eyes be open to your servant's prayer for grace and to the prayer of your people Israel, hearing them when their cry comes to you.

וְאֶל־ (וְ) ve. “and”

Then Solomon, after making all these prayers and requests for grace to the Lord, got up from his knees before the altar of the Lord, where his hands had been stretched out in prayer to heaven;

וְהַתְּחִנָּ֖ה (וְ) ve. “and”וְכַפָּ֖יו (וְ) ve. “and”

Now may the Lord our God be with us as he was with our fathers; let him never go away from us or give us up;

וְאַֽל־ (וְ) ve. “and”

Turning our hearts to himself, guiding us to go in all his ways, to keep his orders and his laws and his decisions, which he gave to our fathers.

וְלִשְׁמֹ֨ר (וְ) ve. “and”וְחֻקָּיו֙ (וְ) ve. “and”וּמִשְׁפָּטָ֔יו (וּ) u. “and”

And may these my words, the words of my prayer to the Lord, be before the Lord our God day and night, so that he may see right done to his servant and to his people Israel, day by day as we have need.

וְיִֽהְי֨וּ (וְ) ve. “and”וָלָ֑יְלָה (וָ) va. “and”וּמִשְׁפַּ֛ט (וּ) u. “and”

Then let your hearts be without sin before the Lord our God, walking in his laws and keeping his orders as at this day.

וְלִשְׁמֹ֥ר (וְ) ve. “and”

Now the king, and all Israel with him, were making offerings before the Lord.

וְֽהַמֶּ֔לֶךְ (וְֽ) ve. “and”וְכָל־ (וְ) ve. “and”

And Solomon gave to the Lord for peace-offerings, twenty-two thousand oxen and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel kept the feast of the opening of the Lord's house.

וּשְׁנַ֙יִם֙ (וּ) u. “and”וְצֹ֕אן (וְ) ve. “and”וְעֶשְׂרִ֖ים (וְ) ve. “and”וְכָל־ (וְ) ve. “and”

The same day the king made holy the middle of the open square in front of the house of the Lord, offering there the burned offering and the meal offering and the fat of the peace-offerings; for there was not room on the brass altar of the Lord for the bu

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְאֵ֖ת (וְ) ve. “and”וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְאֵ֖ת (וְ) ve. “and”

So Solomon and all Israel with him, a very great meeting, (for the people had come together from the way into Hamath to the river of Egypt,) kept the feast at that time before the Lord our God, for two weeks, even fourteen days.

וְכָל־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְשִׁבְעַ֣ת (וְ) ve. “and”

And on the eighth day he sent the people away, and, blessing the king, they went to their tents full of joy and glad in their hearts, because of all the good which the Lord had done to David his servant and to Israel his people.

וְט֣וֹבֵי (וְ) ve. “and”וּלְיִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל (וּ) u. “and”

Now when Solomon came to the end of building the house of the Lord and the king's house, and all Solomon's desires, which he had in mind were effected;

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְאֵת֙ (וְ) ve. “and”

And the Lord said to him, Your prayers and your requests for grace have come to my ears: I have made holy this house which you have made, and I have put my name there for ever; my eyes and my heart will be there at all times.

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְלִבִּ֛י (וְ) ve. “and”

As for you, if you will go on your way before me, as David your father did, uprightly and with a true heart, doing what I have given you orders to do, keeping my laws and my decisions;

וְאַתָּ֞ה (וְ) ve. “and”וּבְיֹ֔שֶׁר (וּ) u. “and”וּמִשְׁפָּטַ֖י (וּ) u. “and”

But if you are turned from my ways, you or your children, and do not keep my orders and my laws which I have put before you, but go and make yourselves servants to other gods and give them worship:

וּבְנֵיכֶם֙ (וּ) u. “and”וְלֹ֤א (וְ) ve. “and”

Then I will have Israel cut off from the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for myself, I will put away from before my eyes; and Israel will be a public example, and a word of shame among all peoples.

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְלִשְׁנִינָ֖ה (וְ) ve. “and”

And this house will become a mass of broken walls, and everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder at it and make whistling sounds; and they will say, Why has the Lord done so to this land and to this house?

וְהַבַּ֤יִת (וְ) ve. “and”וְלַבַּ֥יִת (וְ) ve. “and”

Now at the end of twenty years, in which time Solomon had put up the two houses, the house of the Lord and the king's house,

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”

(Hiram, king of Tyre, had given Solomon cedar-trees and cypress-trees and gold, as much as he had need of,) King Solomon gave Hiram twenty towns in the land of Galilee.

וּבַעֲצֵ֧י (וּ) u. “and”וּבַזָּהָ֖ב (וּ) u. “and”