51. for they are your people—your special possession—whom you brought out of the iron-smelting furnace of Egypt.
52. “May your eyes be open to my requests and to the requests of your people Israel. May you hear and answer them whenever they cry out to you.
53. For when you brought our ancestors out of Egypt, O Sovereign lord, you told your servant Moses that you had set Israel apart from all the nations of the earth to be your own special possession.”
54. When Solomon finished making these prayers and petitions to the lord, he stood up in front of the altar of the lord, where he had been kneeling with his hands raised toward heaven.
55. He stood and in a loud voice blessed the entire congregation of Israel: