8:52 “May you be attentive 6 to your servant’s and your people Israel’s requests for help and may you respond to all their prayers to you. 7
1 tn Heb “the wisdom of Solomon.”
2 tn Heb “turn to.”
3 tn Heb “by listening to.”
4 tn Heb “the loud cry and the prayer.”
5 tn Heb “praying before you.”
3 tn Heb “May your eyes be open.”
4 tn Heb “to listen to them in all their calling out to you.”
4 tc The Old Greek translation and Syriac Peshitta have “all the kings of the earth.” See 2 Chr 9:23.
5 tn Heb “and all the earth was seeking the face of Solomon to hear his wisdom which God had placed in his heart.”