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1 Kings 8:39

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8:39then listen from your heavenly dwelling place, forgive their sin,67 and act favorably toward each one based on your evaluation of his motives.68 (Indeed you are the only one who can correctly evaluate the motives of all people.)69

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Footnotes

  1. 67 The words “their sin” are added for clarification.
  2. 68 Heb “and act and give to each one according to all his ways because you know his heart.” In the Hebrew text vv. 37–39a actually contain one lengthy conditional sentence, which the translation has divided up for stylistic reasons.
  3. 69 Heb “Indeed you know, you alone, the heart of all the sons of mankind.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

then hear in heaven your dwelling place and forgive and act and render to each whose heart you know, according to all his ways (for you, you only, know the hearts of all the children of mankind),

NIVNew International Version (2011)

then hear from heaven, your dwelling place. Forgive and act; deal with everyone according to all they do, since you know their hearts (for you alone know every human heart),

CSBChristian Standard Bible

may you hear in heaven, your dwelling place,

and may you forgive, act, and give to everyone

according to all their ways, since you know each heart,

for you alone know every human heart,

NLTNew Living Translation

then hear from heaven where you live, and forgive. Give your people what their actions deserve, for you alone know each human heart.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

then you shall hear in heaven the place of your dwelling, and you shall forgive and act and give to the man whose heart you know, according to all his ways, for you alone know the heart of all the sons of man.

KJV 1900King James Version

Then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and give to every man according to his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou, even thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men;)