<p class="poetry">Listen to my appeal for mercy!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Deliver me, as you promised.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;May you be attentive<n id="1" /> to your servant&#8217;s and your people Israel&#8217;s requests for help and may you respond to all their prayers to you.<n id="2" />

then listen from heaven to their prayers for help<n id="1" /> and vindicate them.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> has heard my appeal for mercy;p> <p class="poetry">the <sc>Lordsc> has accepted<n id="1" /> my prayer.p>

then listen from your heavenly dwelling place to their prayers for help<n id="1" /> and vindicate them.<n id="2" />

then listen from heaven to their prayers for help<n id="1" /> and vindicate them.<n id="2" />p>

<t /><p class="psasuper">For the music director, to be accompanied by stringed instruments; a well-written song<n id="2" /> by David.p> <p class="poetry">Listen, O God, to my prayer!p> <p class="poetry">Do not ignore<n id="3" /> my appeal for mercy!p>

But respond favorably to<n id="1" /> your servant&#8217;s prayer and his request for help, O <sc>Lordsc> my God. Answer<n id="2" /> the desperate prayer<n id="3" /> your servant is presenting to you<n id="4" /> today.

But respond favorably to<n id="1" /> your servant&#8217;s prayer and his request for help, O <sc>Lordsc> my God. Answer<n id="2" /> the desperate prayer<n id="3" /> your servant is presenting to you.<n id="4" />

then listen from your heavenly dwelling place to their prayers for help,<n id="1" /> vindicate them,<n id="2" /> and forgive your sinful people.p>

When he prayed to the <sc>Lordsc>,<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc><n id="2" /> responded to him<n id="3" /> and answered favorably<n id="4" /> his cry for mercy. The <sc>Lordsc><n id="5" /> brought him back to Jerusalem to his kingdom. Then Manasseh realized that the <sc>Lordsc> is the true God.p>

But now please listen, your royal Majesty,<n id="1" /> and grant my plea for mercy.<n id="2" /> Do not send me back to the house of Jonathan, the royal secretary. If you do, I will die there.&#8221;<n id="3" />

If they do this, tell<n id="1" /> them, &#8216;I was pleading with the king not to send me back to die in the dungeon of Jonathan&#8217;s house.&#8217;&#8221;<n id="2" />

Then Jeremiah said to them, &#8220;You sent me to the <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel to make your request known to him. Here is what he says to you:<n id="1" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">While I was still speaking and praying, confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel and presenting my request before the <sc>LORDsc> my God concerning his holy mountain<n id="1" /> &#8211;

for the <sc>Lordsc> determined to make them obstinate so they would attack Israel. He wanted Israel to annihilate them without mercy, as he had instructed Moses.<n id="1" />p>

Respond to the request of your servant and your people Israel for this place.<n id="1" /> Hear from inside your heavenly dwelling place<n id="2" /> and respond favorably.<n id="3" />p>

When all your people Israel pray and ask for help,<n id="1" /> as they acknowledge their pain<n id="2" /> and spread out their hands toward this temple,

<p class="bodytext">When Solomon finished presenting all these prayers and requests to the <sc>Lordsc>, he got up from before the altar of the <sc>Lordsc> where he had kneeled and spread out his hands toward the sky.<n id="1" />

The <sc>Lordsc> said to him, &#8220;I have answered<n id="1" /> your prayer and your request for help that you made to me. I have consecrated this temple you built by making it my permanent home;<n id="2" /> I will be constantly present there.<n id="3" />