New Revised Standard Version
And Abraham said to God, “O that Ishmael might live in your sight!”

Contemporary English Version
Then he asked God, "Why not let Ishmael inherit what you have promised me?"

New American Bible
So Abraham said to God, “If only Ishmael could live in your favor!”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he said to God: O that Ismael may live before thee.

And he said to God: O that Ismael may live before thee.

O that.

Jeremiah 32:39 And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me all days: and that it may be well with them, and with their children after them.

Acts 2:39 For the promise is to you and to your children and to all that are far off, whomsoever the Lord our God shall call.

before.

Genesis 4:12,14 When thou shalt till it, it shall not yield to thee its fruit: a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be upon the earth. . . .

Psalm 4:6 The light of thy countenance, O Lord, is signed upon us: thou hast given gladness in my heart.

Psalm 41:12 But thou hast upheld me by reason of my innocence: and hast established me in thy sight for ever.

Isaiah 59:2 But your iniquities have divided between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you that he should not hear.