1 Kings 8:38-40

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

³⁸ whatever prayer, whatever plea there is from any individual or from all your people Israel, all knowing the afflictions of their own hearts so that they stretch out their hands toward this house; ³⁹ then hear in heaven your dwelling place, forgive, act, and render to all whose hearts you know—according to all their ways, for only you know what is in every human heart— ⁴⁰ so that they may fear you all the days that they live in the land that you gave to our ancestors.