49 then listen to their prayers. In your home in heaven hear them and be merciful to them.
50 Forgive all their sins and their rebellion against you, and make their enemies treat them with kindness.
51 They are your own people, whom you brought out of Egypt, that blazing furnace.
52 “Sovereign Lord, may you always look with favour on your people Israel and their king, and hear their prayer whenever they call to you for help.
53 You chose them from all the peoples to be your own people, as you told them through your servant Moses when you brought our ancestors out of Egypt.”
54 After Solomon had finished praying to the Lord, he stood up in front of the altar, where he had been kneeling with uplifted hands.
55 In a loud voice he asked God's blessings on all the people assembled there. He said,