² Give ear to the voice of my prayer, when I am crying to you, when my hands are lifted up to your holy place.

² Let my prayer be ordered before you like a sweet smell; and let the lifting up of my hands be like the evening offering.

² I will give worship before your holy Temple, praising your name for your mercy and for your unchanging faith: for you have made your word greater than all your name.

⁷ But as for me, I will come into your house, in the full measure of your mercy; and in your fear I will give worship, turning my eyes to your holy Temple.

⁸ It is my desire, then, that in every place men may give themselves to prayer, lifting up holy hands, without wrath or argument.

² Give praise to the Lord, lifting up your hands in his holy place.

⁶ I have said to the Lord, You are my God: give ear, O Lord, to the voice of my prayer.

¹⁰ For this reason King Darius put his name on the writing and the order.

¹⁹ Up! give cries in the night, at the starting of the night-watches; let your heart be flowing out like water before the face of the Lord, lifting up your hands to him for the life of your young children who are falling down, feeble for need of food, at the top of every street.

⁶ My hands are stretched out to you: my soul is turned to you, like a land in need of water. (Selah.)

⁵ But as for such as are turned out of the straight way, the Lord will take them away with the workers of evil. Let peace be on Israel.

⁴ So will I go on blessing you all my life, lifting up my hands in your name.

¹³ (For Solomon had made a brass stage, five cubits long, five cubits wide and three cubits high, and had put it in the middle of the open space; on this he took his place and went down on his knees before all the meeting of Israel, stretching out his hands to heaven.)

³⁸ Whatever prayer or request for your grace is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, whatever his trouble may be, whose hands are stretched out to this house:

²⁸ Still, let your heart be turned to the prayer of your servant, O Lord God, and to his prayer for grace; give ear to the cry and the prayer which your servant sends up to you this day;

²⁹ That your eyes may be open to this house night and day, to this place of which you have said, My name will be there; hearing the prayer which your servant may make, turning to this place.

³⁰ Give ear to the prayers of your servant, and the prayers of your people Israel, when they make their prayers, turning to this place; give ear in heaven your living-place, and hearing, have mercy.

⁶ And the priests took the ark of the agreement of the Lord and put it in its place in the inner room of the house, in the most holy place, under the wings of the winged ones.

⁷ For their wings were outstretched over the place where the ark was, covering the ark and its rods.

⁸ The rods were so long that their ends were seen from the holy place, in front of the inmost room; but they were not seen from outside: and there they are to this day.

²² Plates of gold were put all through the house till it was covered completely (and the altar in the inmost room was all covered with gold).

²³ In the inmost room he made two winged beings of olive-wood, ten cubits high;

¹⁹ And he made ready an inmost room in the middle of the house, in which to put the ark of the agreement of the Lord.