Then Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord, in the sight of the assembly of Israel, and he extended his hands toward heaven.
8:23
そして彼は言った: “Lord God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven above, nor on the earth below. You preserve covenant and mercy with your servants, who walk before you with all their heart.
8:26
そしていま, おおイスラエルの主なる神よ, establish your words, which you spoke to your servant David, 私の父.
8:27
Is it, それから, to be understood that truly God would dwell upon the earth? For if heaven, and the heavens of heavens, are not able to contain you, how much less this house, which I have built?
8:28
Yet look with favor upon the prayer of your servant and upon his petitions, 主よ, 我が神よ. Listen to the hymn and the prayer, which your servant prays before you this day,
8:29
so that your eyes may be open over this house, 夜と昼, over the house about which you said, ‘My name shall be there,’ so that you may heed the prayer that your servant is praying in this place to you.
8:30
So may you heed the supplication of your servant and of your people Israel, whatever they will pray for in this place, and so may you heed them in your dwelling place in heaven. And when you heed, you will be gracious.
