8:27 “God does not really live on the earth! 1 Look, if the sky and the highest heaven cannot contain you, how much less this temple I have built! 8:28 But respond favorably to 2 your servant’s prayer and his request for help, O Lord my God. Answer 3 the desperate prayer 4 your servant is presenting to you 5 today.
1 tn Heb “Indeed, can God really live on the earth?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “Of course not,” the force of which the translation above seeks to reflect.
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.”