1 Kings 8:45
Good News Translation
listen to their prayers. Hear them in heaven and give them victory.

New Revised Standard Version
then hear in heaven their prayer and their plea, and maintain their cause.

Contemporary English Version
Answer their prayers from heaven and give them victory.

New American Bible
listen in heaven to their prayer and petition, and uphold their cause.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And then hear thou in heaven their prayers, and their supplications, and do judgment for them.

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And then hear thou in heaven their prayers, and their supplications, and do judgment for them.

cause.

Genesis 18:25 Far be it from thee to do this thing, and to slay the just with the wicked, and for the just to be in like case as the wicked; this is not beseeming thee: thou who judgest all the earth, wilt not make this judgment.

Psalm 9:4 For thou hast maintained my judgment and my cause: thou hast sat on the throne, who judgest justice.

Jeremiah 5:28 They are grown gross and fat: and have most wickedly transgressed my words. They have not judged the cause of the widow, they have not managed the cause of the fatherless, and they have not judged the judgment of the poor.

Context
Solomon's Prayer of Dedication
44If thy people go out to war against their enemies, by what way soever thou shalt send them, they shall pray to thee towards the way of the city, which thou hast chosen, and towards the house, which I have built to thy name: 45And then hear thou in heaven their prayers, and their supplications, and do judgment for them.46But if they sin against thee, (for there is no man who sinneth not) and thou being angry, deliver them up to their enemies, so that they be led away captives into the land of their enemies, far or near;…
Cross References
1 Kings 8:44
If thy people go out to war against their enemies, by what way soever thou shalt send them, they shall pray to thee towards the way of the city, which thou hast chosen, and towards the house, which I have built to thy name:

1 Kings 8:46
But if they sin against thee, (for there is no man who sinneth not) and thou being angry, deliver them up to their enemies, so that they be led away captives into the land of their enemies, far or near;

Psalm 140:12
I know that the Lord will do justice to the needy, and will revenge the poor.

1 Kings 8:44
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