II Chronicles 6

az amar shelomoh Adonai amar lishkon ba'arafel

Then Solomon declared: “GOD has chosen To abide in a thick cloud;

va'ani baniti vet-zevul lakh umakhon leshivtekha olamim

I have built for You A stately House, And a place where You May dwell forever.”

vayyassev hammelekh et-panayw vayevarekh et kol-qehal yisra'el vekhol-qehal yisra'el omed

Then, as the whole congregation of Israel stood, the king turned and blessed the whole congregation of Israel.

vayyomer barukh Adonai elohe yisra'el asher dibber befiv et david avi uveyadayw mille lemor

He said, “Blessed is the ETERNAL God of Israel, who made a promise to my father David and fulfilled it—after having said,

min-hayyom asher hotseti et-ammi me'erets mitsrayim lo-vakharti ve'ir mikkol shivte yisra'el livnot bayit lihyot shemi sham velo-vakharti ve'ish lihyot nagid al-ammi yisra'el

‘From the time I brought My people out of the land of Egypt, I never chose a city from among all the tribes of Israel to build a House where My name might abide; nor did I choose anyone to be the leader of My people Israel.

va'evkhar birushalai͏m lihyot shemi sham va'evkhar bedavid lihyot al-ammi yisra'el

But then I chose Jerusalem for My name to abide there, and I chose David to rule My people Israel.’

vayehi im-levav david avi livnot bayit leshem Adonai elohe yisra'el

“Now my father David had wanted to build a House for the name of the ETERNAL God of Israel.

vayyomer Adonai el-david avi ya'an asher hayah im-levavekha livnot bayit lishmi hetivota ki hayah im-levavekha

But GOD said to my father David, ‘As for your wanting to build a House for My name, you do well to want that.

raq attah lo tivneh habbayit ki vinkha hayyotse mekhalatsekha hu-yivneh habbayit lishmi

However, you shall not build the House; your son, the issue of your loins, he shall build the House for My name.’

vayyaqem Adonai et-devaro asher dibber va'aqum takhat david avi va'eshev al-kisse yisra'el ka'asher dibber Adonai va'evneh habbayit leshem Adonai elohe yisra'el

Now GOD has fulfilled the promise that was made. I have succeeded my father David and have ascended the throne of Israel, as GOD promised. I have built the House for the name of the ETERNAL God of Israel,

va'asim sham et-ha'aron asher-sham berit Adonai asher karat im-bene yisra'el

and there I have set the Ark containing the Covenant that GOD made with the Israelites.”

vayya'amod lifne mizbakh Adonai neged kol-qehal yisra'el vayyifros kappayw

Then, standing before the altar of GOD in front of the whole congregation of Israel, he spread forth his hands.

ki-asah shelomoh kiyyor nekhoshet vayyittenehu betokh ha'azarah khamesh ammot orko vekhamesh ammot rokhbo ve'ammot shalosh qomato vayya'amod alayw vayyivrakh al-birkayw neged kol-qehal yisra'el vayyifros kappayw hashamayemah

Solomon had made a bronze platform and placed it in the midst of the Great Court; it was 5 cubits long and 5 cubits wide and 3 cubits high. He stood on it; then, kneeling in front of the whole congregation of Israel, he spread forth his hands to heaven

vayyomar Adonai elohe yisra'el en-kamokha elohim bashamayim uva'arets shomer habberit vehakhesed la'avadekha haholekhim lefanekha bekhol-libbam

and said, “O ETERNAL God of Israel, there is no god like You in the heavens and on the earth, You who steadfastly maintain the Covenant with Your servants who walk before You with all their heart;

asher shamarta le'avdekha david avi et asher-dibbarta lo vattedabber befikha uveyadekha milleta kayyom hazzeh

You who have kept the promises You made to Your servant, my father David; You made a promise and have fulfilled it—as is now the case.

ve'attah Adonai elohe yisra'el shemor le'avdekha david avi et asher dibbarta lo lemor lo-yikkaret lekha ish millefanay yoshev al-kisse yisra'el raq im-yishmeru vanekha et-darkam lalekhet betorati ka'asher halakhta lefanay

And now, O ETERNAL God of Israel, keep that promise that You made to Your servant, my father David, ‘You shall never lack a descendant in My sight sitting on the throne of Israel if only your children will look to their way and walk in the [path] of My teachings as you have walked before Me.’

ve'attah Adonai elohe yisra'el ye'amen devarekha asher dibbarta le'avdekha ledavid

Now, therefore, O God of Israel, let the promise that You made to Your servant, my father David, be confirmed.

ki ha'umnam yeshev elohim et-ha'adam al-ha'arets hinneh shamayim usheme hashamayim lo yekhalkelukha af ki-habbayit hazzeh asher baniti

“Does God really dwell with mortals on earth? Even the heavens to their uttermost reaches cannot contain You; how much less this House that I have built!

ufanita el-tefillat avdekha ve'el-tekhinnato Adonai elohay lishmoa el-harinnah ve'el-hattefillah asher avdekha mitpallel lefanekha

Yet turn, O ETERNAL One my God, to the prayer and supplication of Your servant, and hear the cry and the prayer that Your servant offers to You.

lihyot enekha fetukhot el-habbayit hazzeh yomam valaylah el-hammaqom asher amarta lasum shimkha sham lishmoa el-hattefillah asher yitpallel avdekha el-hammaqom hazzeh

May Your eyes be open day and night toward this House, toward the place where You have resolved to make Your name abide; may You heed the prayers that Your servant offers toward this place.

veshamata el-takhanune avdekha ve'ammekha yisra'el asher yitpallu el-hammaqom hazzeh ve'attah tishma mimmeqom shivtekha min-hashamayim veshamata vesalakheta

And when You hear the supplications that Your servant and Your people Israel offer toward this place, give heed in Your heavenly abode—give heed and pardon.

im-yekheta ish lere'ehu venasha-vo alah leha'aloto uva alah lifne mizbakhakha babbayit hazzeh

“If one person commits an offense against another and is made to take an oath and utter a self-imprecation and, with that imprecation, comes before Your altar in this House,

ve'attah tishma min-hashamayim ve'asita veshafatta et-avadekha lehashiv lerasha latet darko berosho ulehatsdiq tsaddiq latet lo ketsidqato

may You hear in heaven and take action to judge Your servants, requiting the one who is in the wrong by bringing down the punishment of their conduct on their head—while vindicating the other, who is in the right, by rewarding them according to their righteousness.

ve'im-yinnagef ammekha yisra'el lifne oyev ki yekhetu-lakh veshavu vehodu et-shemekha vehitpallu vehitkhannenu lefanekha babbayit hazzeh

“Should Your people Israel be defeated by an enemy because they have sinned against You, and then once again acknowledge Your name and offer prayer and supplication to You in this House,

ve'attah tishma min-hashamayim vesalakhta lekhattat ammekha yisra'el vahashevotam el-ha'adamah asher-natattah lahem vela'avotehem

may You hear in heaven and pardon the sin of Your people Israel, and restore them to the land that You gave to them and to their ancestors.

behe'atser hashamayim velo-yihyeh matar ki yekhetu-lakh vehitpallu el-hammaqom hazzeh vehodu et-shemekha mekhattatam yeshuvun ki ta'anem

“Should the heavens be shut up and there be no rain because they have sinned against You, and then they pray toward this place and acknowledge Your name and repent of their sins, because You humbled them,

ve'attah tishma hashamayim vesalakhta lekhattat avadekha ve'ammekha yisra'el ki torem el-hadderekh hattovah asher yelekhu-vah venatattah matar al-artsekha asher-natattah le'ammekha lenakhalah

may You hear in heaven and pardon the sin of Your servants, Your people Israel, when You have shown them the proper way in which they are to walk, and send down rain upon the land that You gave to Your people as their heritage.

ra'av ki-yihyeh va'arets dever ki-yihyeh shiddafon veyeraqon arbeh vekhasil ki yihyeh ki yatsar-lo oyevayw be'erets she'arayw kol-nega vekhol-makhalah

So, too, if there is a famine in the land, if there is pestilence, blight, mildew, locusts, or caterpillars, or if an enemy oppresses them in any of the settlements of their land. “In any plague and in any disease,

kol-tefillah khol-tekhinnah asher yihyeh lekhol-ha'adam ulekhol ammekha yisra'el asher yede'u ish nigo umakhovo ufaras kappayw el-habbayit hazzeh

any prayer or supplication offered by any person among all Your people Israel—each of whom knows their own affliction and pain—when they spread forth their hands toward this House,

ve'attah tishma min-hashamayim mekhon shivtekha vesalakhta venatattah la'ish kekhol-derakhayw asher teda et-levavo ki attah levaddekha yadata et-levav bene ha'adam

may You hear in Your heavenly abode, and pardon. Deal with that individual according to their ways, as You know their heart to be—for You alone know every human heart.

lema'an yira'ukha lalekhet bidrakhekha kol-hayyamim asher-hem khayyim al-pene ha'adamah asher natattah la'avotenu

Thus may Your people revere You all the days that they live on the land that You gave to our ancestors.

vegam el-hannokhri asher lo me'ammekha yisra'el hu uva me'erets rekhoqah lema'an shimkha haggadol veyadekha hakhazaqah uzero'akha hannetuyah uva'u vehitpallu el-habbayit hazzeh

“Or if a foreigner who is not of Your people Israel comes from a distant land for the sake of Your great name, Your mighty hand, and Your outstretched arm—and if this person comes to pray toward this House,

ve'attah tishma min-hashamayim mimmekhon shivtekha ve'asita kekhol asher-yiqra elekha hannokhri lema'an yede'u khol-amme ha'arets et-shemekha uleyirah otekha ke'ammekha yisra'el velada'at ki-shimkha niqra al-habbayit hazzeh asher baniti

may You hear in Your heavenly abode and grant whatever the foreigner appeals to You for. Thus all the peoples of the earth will know Your name and revere You, as does Your people Israel; and they will recognize that Your name is attached to this House that I have built.

ki-yetse ammekha lammilkhamah al-oyevayw badderekh asher tishlakhem vehitpallu elekha derekh ha'ir hazzot asher bakharta bah vehabbayit asher-baniti lishmekha

“When Your people take the field against their enemies in a campaign on which You send them, and they pray to You in the direction of the city that You have chosen and the House that I have built to Your name,

veshamata min-hashamayim et-tefillatam ve'et-tekhinnatam ve'asita mishpatam

may You hear in heaven their prayer and supplication and uphold their cause.

ki yekhetu-lakh ki en adam asher lo-yekheta ve'anafta vam unetattam lifne oyev veshavum shovehem el-erets rekhoqah o qerovah

“When they sin against You—for there is no mortal who does not sin—and You are angry with them and deliver them to the enemy, and their captors carry them off to an enemy land, near or far;

veheshivu el-levavam ba'arets asher nishbu-sham veshavu vehitkhannenu elekha be'erets shivyam lemor khatanu he'evinu verasha'enu

and they take it to heart in the land to which they have been carried off, and repent and make supplication to You in the land of their captivity, saying, ‘We have sinned, we have acted perversely, we have acted wickedly,’

veshavu elekha bekhol-libbam uvekhol-nafsham be'erets shivyam asher-shavu otam vehitpallu derekh artsam asher natattah la'avotam veha'ir asher bakharta velabbayit asher-baniti lishmekha

and they turn back to You with all their heart and soul, in the land of their captivity where they were carried off, and pray in the direction of their land that You gave to their ancestors and the city that You have chosen, and toward the House that I have built for Your name—

veshamata min-hashamayim mimmekhon shivtekha et-tefillatam ve'et-tekhinnotehem ve'asita mishpatam vesalakhta le'ammekha asher khate'u-lakh

may You hear their prayer and supplication in Your heavenly abode, uphold their cause, and pardon Your people who have sinned against You.

attah elohay yihyu-na enekha petukhot ve'oznekha qashuvot litfillat hammaqom hazzeh

Now My God, may Your eyes be open and Your ears attentive to prayer from this place;

ve'attah qumah Adonai elohim lenukhekha attah va'aron uzzekha kohanekha Adonai elohim yilbeshu teshu'ah vakhasidekha yismekhu vattov

and now, Advance, O ETERNAL God, to your resting-place, You and Your mighty Ark. Your priests, O ETERNAL God, are clothed in triumph; Your loyal ones will rejoice in [Your] goodness.

Adonai elohim al-tashev pene meshikhekha zokhrah lekhasde david avdekha

O ETERNAL God, do not reject Your anointed one; remember the loyalty of Your servant David.”