1 Then Solomon said, "The LORD has said that he would dwell in a dark cloud;2 I have built a magnificent temple for you, a place for you to dwell forever."3 While the whole assembly of Israel was standing there, the king turned around and blessed them.4 Then he said: "Praise be to the LORD, the God of Israel, who with his hands has fulfilled what he promised with his mouth to my father David. For he said,5 'Since the day I brought my people out of Egypt, I have not chosen a city in any tribe of Israel to have a temple built so that my Name might be there, nor have I chosen anyone to be ruler over my people Israel.6 But now I have chosen Jerusalem for my Name to be there, and I have chosen David to rule my people Israel.'7 "My father David had it in his heart to build a temple for the Name of the LORD, the God of Israel.8 But the LORD said to my father David, 'You did well to have it in your heart to build a temple for my Name.9 Nevertheless, you are not the one to build the temple, but your son, your own flesh and blood —he is the one who will build the temple for my Name.'10 "The LORD has kept the promise he made. I have succeeded David my father and now I sit on the throne of Israel, just as the LORD promised, and I have built the temple for the Name of the LORD, the God of Israel.11 There I have placed the ark, in which is the covenant of the LORD that he made with the people of Israel."12 Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in front of the whole assembly of Israel and spread out his hands.13 Now he had made a bronze platform, five cubits long, five cubits wide and three cubits high, "and had placed it in the center of the outer court. He stood on the platform and then knelt down before the whole assembly of Israel and spread out his hands toward heaven.14 He said: "LORD, the God of Israel, there is no God like you in heaven or on earth —you who keep your covenant of love with your servants who continue wholeheartedly in your way.15 You have kept your promise to your servant David my father; with your mouth you have promised and with your hand you have fulfilled it —as it is today.16 "Now, LORD, the God of Israel, keep for your servant David my father the promises you made to him when you said, 'You shall never fail to have a successor to sit before me on the throne of Israel, if only your descendants are careful in all they do to walk before me according to my law, as you have done.'17 And now, LORD, the God of Israel, let your word that you promised your servant David come true.18 "But will God really dwell on earth with humans? The heavens, even the highest heavens, cannot contain you. How much less this temple I have built!19 Yet, LORD my God, give attention to your servant's prayer and his plea for mercy. Hear the cry and the prayer that your servant is praying in your presence.20 May your eyes be open toward this temple day and night, this place of which you said you would put your Name there. May you hear the prayer your servant prays toward this place.21 Hear the supplications of your servant and of your people Israel when they pray toward this place. Hear from heaven, your dwelling place; and when you hear, forgive.22 "When anyone wrongs their neighbor and is required to take an oath and they come and swear the oath before your altar in this temple,23 then hear from heaven and act. Judge between your servants, condemning the guilty and bringing down on their heads what they have done, and vindicating the innocent by treating them in accordance with their innocence.24 "When your people Israel have been defeated by an enemy because they have sinned against you and when they turn back and give praise to your name, praying and making supplication before you in this temple,25 then hear from heaven and forgive the sin of your people Israel and bring them back to the land you gave to them and their ancestors.26 "When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain because your people have sinned against you, and when they pray toward this place and give praise to your name and turn from their sin because you have afflicted them,27 then hear from heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel. Teach them the right way to live, and send rain on the land you gave your people for an inheritance.28 "When famine or plague comes to the land, or blight or mildew, locusts or grasshoppers, or when enemies besiege them in any of their cities, whatever disaster or disease may come,29 and when a prayer or plea is made by anyone among your people Israel —being aware of their afflictions and pains, and spreading out their hands toward this temple —30 then hear from heaven, your dwelling place. Forgive, and deal with everyone according to all they do, since you know their hearts (for you alone know the human heart),31 so that they will fear you and walk in obedience to you all the time they live in the land you gave our ancestors.32 "As for the foreigner who does not belong to your people Israel but has come from a distant land because of your great name and your mighty hand and your outstretched arm —when they come and pray toward this temple,33 then hear from heaven, your dwelling place. Do whatever the foreigner asks of you, so that all the peoples of the earth may know your name and fear you, as do your own people Israel, and may know that this house I have built bears your Name.34 "When your people go to war against their enemies, wherever you send them, and when they pray to you toward this city you have chosen and the temple I have built for your Name,35 then hear from heaven their prayer and their plea, and uphold their cause.36 "When they sin against you —for there is no one who does not sin —and you become angry with them and give them over to the enemy, who takes them captive to a land far away or near;37 and if they have a change of heart in the land where they are held captive, and repent and plead with you in the land of their captivity and say, 'We have sinned, we have done wrong and acted wickedly';38 and if they turn back to you with all their heart and soul in the land of their captivity where they were taken, and pray toward the land you gave their ancestors, toward the city you have chosen and toward the temple I have built for your Name;39 then from heaven, your dwelling place, hear their prayer and their pleas, and uphold their cause. And forgive your people, who have sinned against you.40 "Now, my God, may your eyes be open and your ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place.41 "Now arise, LORD God, and come to your resting place, you and the ark of your might. May your priests, LORD God, be clothed with salvation, may your faithful people rejoice in your goodness.42 LORD God, do not reject your anointed one. Remember the great love promised to David your servant."

1 Tunc Salomon ait : Dominus pollicitus est ut habitaret in caligine : 2 ego autem dificavi domum nomini ejus, ut habitaret ibi in perpetuum. 3 Et convertit rex faciem suam, et benedixit univers multitudini Isral (nam omnis turba stabat intenta), et ait : 4 Benedictus Dominus Deus Isral, qui quod locutus est David patri meo, opere complevit, dicens : 5 A die qua eduxi populum meum de terra gypti, non elegi civitatem de cunctis tribubus Isral ut dificaretur in ea domus nomini meo, neque elegi quemquam alium virum ut esset dux in populo Isral : 6 sed elegi Jerusalem ut sit nomen meum in ea, et elegi David ut constituerem eum super populum meum Isral. 7 Cumque fuisset voluntatis David patris mei ut dificaret domum nomini Domini Dei Isral, 8 dixit Dominus ad eum : Quia hc fuit voluntas tua, ut dificares domum nomini meo, bene quidem fecisti hujuscemodi habere voluntatem : 9 sed non tu dificabis domum : verum filius tuus, qui egredietur de lumbis tuis, ipse dificabit domum nomini meo. 10 Complevit ergo Dominus sermonem suum quem locutus fuerat : et ego surrexi pro David patre meo, et sedi super thronum Isral, sicut locutus est Dominus : et dificavi domum nomini Domini Dei Isral. 11 Et posui in ea arcam in qua est pactum Domini quod pepigit cum filiis Isral.12 Stetit ergo coram altari Domini ex adverso univers multitudinis Isral, et extendit manus suas. 13 Siquidem fecerat Salomon basim neam, et posuerat eam in medio basilic, habentem quinque cubitos longitudinis, et quinque cubitos latitudinis, et tres cubitos altitudinis : stetitque super eam, et deinceps flexis genibus contra universam multitudinem Isral, et palmis in clum levatis, 14 ait : Domine Deus Isral, non est similis tui deus in clo et in terra : qui custodis pactum et misericordiam cum servis tuis qui ambulant coram te in toto corde suo : 15 qui prstitisti servo tuo David patri meo qucumque locutus fueras ei : et qu ore promiseras, opere complesti, sicut et prsens tempus probat. 16 Nunc ergo Domine Deus Isral, imple servo tuo patri meo David qucumque locutus es, dicens : Non deficiet ex te vir coram me, qui sedeat super thronum Isral : ita tamen si custodierint filii tui vias suas, et ambulaverint in lege mea, sicut et tu ambulasti coram me. 17 Et nunc Domine Deus Isral, firmetur sermo tuus quem locutus es servo tuo David. 18 Ergone credibile est ut habitet Deus cum hominibus super terram ? si clum et cli clorum non te capiunt, quanto magis domus ista quam dificavi ? 19 Sed ad hoc tantum facta est, ut respicias orationem servi tui, et obsecrationem ejus, Domine Deus meus, et audias preces quas fundit famulus tuus coram te : 20 ut aperias oculos tuos super domum istam diebus ac noctibus, super locum in quo pollicitus es ut invocaretur nomen tuum, 21 et exaudires orationem quam servus tuus orat in eo : et exaudias preces famuli tui, et populi tui Isral. Quicumque oraverit in loco isto, exaudi de habitaculo tuo, id est, de clis, et propitiare.22 Si peccaverit quispiam in proximum suum, et jurare contra eum paratus venerit, seque maledicto constrinxerit coram altari in domo ista : 23 tu audies de clo, et facies judicium servorum tuorum, ita ut reddas iniquo viam suam in caput proprium, et ulciscaris justum, retribuens ei secundum justitiam suam. 24 Si superatus fuerit populus tuus Isral ab inimicis (peccabunt enim tibi), et conversi egerint pnitentiam, et obsecraverint nomen tuum, et fuerint deprecati in loco isto, 25 tu exaudies de clo : et propitiare peccato populi tui Isral, et reduc eos in terram quam dedisti eis, et patribus eorum. 26 Si clauso clo pluvia non fluxerit propter peccata populi, et deprecati te fuerint in loco isto, et confessi nomini tuo, et conversi a peccatis suis, cum eos afflixeris, 27 exaudi de clo, Domine, et dimitte peccata servis tuis et populi tui Isral, et doce eos viam bonam, per quam ingrediantur : et da pluviam terr quam dedisti populo tuo ad possidendum. 28 Fames si orta fuerit in terra, et pestilentia, rugo, et aurugo, et locusta, et bruchus : et hostes, vastatis regionibus, portas obsederint civitatis, omnisque plaga et infirmitas presserit : 29 si quis de populo tuo Isral fuerit deprecatus, cognoscens plagam et infirmitatem suam, et expanderit manus suas in domo hac, 30 tu exaudies de clo, de sublimi scilicet habitaculo tuo : et propitiare, et redde unicuique secundum vias suas, quas nosti eum habere in corde suo (tu enim solus nosti corda filiorum hominum) : 31 ut timeant te, et ambulent in viis tuis cunctis diebus quibus vivunt super faciem terr quam dedisti patribus nostris. 32 Externum quoque, qui non est de populo tuo Isral, si venerit de terra longinqua propter nomen tuum magnum, et propter manum tuam robustam, et brachium tuum extentum, et adoraverit in loco isto, 33 tu exaudies de clo firmissimo habitaculo tuo, et facies cuncta pro quibus invocaverit te ille peregrinus : ut sciant omnes populi terr nomen tuum, et timeant te sicut populus tuus Isral, et cognoscant quia nomen tuum invocatum est super domum hanc quam dificavi. 34 Si egressus fuerit populus tuus ad bellum contra adversarios suos per viam in qua miseris eos, adorabunt te contra viam in qua civitas hc est, quam elegisti, et domus quam dificavi nomini tuo, 35 tu exaudies de clo preces eorum, et obsecrationem : et ulciscaris.36 Si autem peccaverint tibi (neque enim est homo qui non peccet), et iratus fueris eis, et tradideris hostibus, et captivos duxerint eos in terram longinquam, vel certe qu juxta est, 37 et conversi in corde suo in terra ad quam captivi ducti fuerant, egerint pnitentiam, et deprecati te fuerint in terra captivitatis su, dicentes : Peccavimus : inique fecimus, injuste egimus : 38 et reversi fuerint ad te in toto corde suo, et in tota anima sua, in terra captivitatis su ad quam ducti sunt, adorabunt te contra viam terr su, quam dedisti patribus eorum, et urbis quam elegisti, et domus quam dificavi nomini tuo : 39 tu exaudies de clo, hoc est, de firmo habitaculo tuo, preces eorum : et facias judicium, et dimittas populo tuo, quamvis peccatori : 40 tu es enim Deus meus : aperiantur, quso, oculi tui, et aures tu intent sint ad orationem qu fit in loco isto. 41 Nunc igitur consurge, Domine Deus, in requiem tuam, tu et arca fortitudinis tu : sacerdotes tui, Domine Deus, induantur salutem, et sancti tui ltentur in bonis. 42 Domine Deus, ne averteris faciem christi tui : memento misericordiarum David servi tui.