8:52 “May you be attentive 1 to your servant’s and your people Israel’s requests for help and may you respond to all their prayers to you. 2 8:53 After all, 3 you picked them out of all the nations of the earth to be your special possession, 4 just as you, O sovereign Lord, announced through your servant Moses when you brought our ancestors out of Egypt.”
1 tn Heb “May your eyes be open.”
2 tn Heb “to listen to them in all their calling out to you.”
3 tn Or “For.”
4 tn Heb “your inheritance.”