Second Book of Chronicles - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 978

routed before their enemies, because they have sinned against You; when they turn, and appeal to Your Name, and pray and entreat before You in this House; then hear from the Heavens, and forgive the sins of Your People of Israel, and restore them to the Country which You gave to them and their ancestors. When the skies are restrained,

and rain comes not, because they sin against You; when they pray from this place, and appeal to Your Name, and turn from their sins, because You punish them; then hear from the Heavens, and forgive the sins of Your servants, and of Your People of Israel, and teach them the better way in which they should walk, and give rain upon Your Country, which You entrusted to Your People to possess. ‘ When famine comes to the Land ;

when plague comes; blasting; or mildew; ` if locust or caterpillar should come; if its enemies besiege it in the gates of the country; or any contagion, or any disease; any in- fliction, any distress, such as comes to all Mankind, and to Your People of Israel, which all men know in themselves; when in their sorrow they spread their hands to this House; then hear from the Heavens, the place of Your rest, and forgive, and grant to the person whose heart You know, what is right for his conduct, for You alone know the hearts of

the sons of Adam,—~·so that they may reverence You, and walk in Your ways, all the days of their lives on the face of the Land which You gave to our fathers. ‘And also the foreigners, who are

not sprung from Your People of Israel, who came from distant countries, for the sake of Your GREAT NAME, and Your strong hand,and Your directing arm :—-when they come and pray at this I-Iouse,——then listen from the Heavens from the Abode of Your Rest, and do all that is asked of You by those foreigners, so that all the Peoples ofthe Earth may know Your Name, and reverence You, like Your People of Israel, and may learn that Your NAME has been invoked upon this House that I have built. ‘ When Your People go out to war

with their enemies, on a path that You send them, and pray to You towards this City that You have built for it, and the I-Iouse which I have built to Your NAME; listen from the Heavens to their prayer and entreaty, and do them justice, when they sin against You,—·-for there is no man who does not sin,-—and You are angry with them, and abandon them before their enemies, and their cap~ tors remove them to a distant land, or a near one; when they turn their hearts in the land where they have been carried, and say, ‘We have sinned, and been wilful, and wicked. And they turn to You with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of captivity where they are captive, and pray towards the country which was given to their fathers, and the City. that You have chosen, and the House which I have built to Your NAME ;—-then listen from the Heavens, from the abode of Your rest, to their prayers and entreaties, and do justice, and forgive Your People who have sinned against You. ‘ Now, My GOD, let Your eyes be

open, and Your ears listening to the prayers in this place. So now, Evan-Lxviivc Gon, 35 37 39 establish Your consolation,-·-Youn self,·——with the Ark of Your strength. Let Your Priests, 'EVER·LIVING Gon, be clothed in Salvation, and Your Saints rejoice in Benelicencel EVER- LIVING GOD l turn not Your face from Your Consecratcd; remember the good deeds of Your Servant David! (roog ac.) EI): §ihi:xz manifeste- iiutt at the Wnnszrratimt nf ilyr Gzmplr. When Solomon had finished pray-

ing, the ure rushed down from the Heavens, and consumed the Burnt- offering, and Sacrilices ; and the Glory of the Even-Lrvmc iilled the House, so that the Priests were not able to enter the House of the Evan- uvmc, for the Glory of the Loan filled the House of the Evan-uviuc; and all the Children of Israel saw the down-rushing tire and the Glory of the Evan-Livmc on the House, and they knelt face to the earth, on the pavement, and worshipped, and gave, l`hanks to the Evnmnivmc, for He is good ; For His Mercy endures for ever I ’ 978