complete verse (1 Kings 8:38)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 1 Kings 8:38:

  • Kupsabiny: “oh, God, listen to all the prayers of your people. If any person is faced with pain and prays while lifting his hands towards this house of yours,” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “please hear their prayers. If anyone among Your people, the Israelites, feeling remorse in their hearts, lifting their hands toward this temple in prayer,” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “and if there is one among them (who)-will-pray or (who)-will-request from you, listen-to them. If they acknowledge that because of their sins these sufferings came to them, and they will-pray raising-up their hands, facing this temple,” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “when your Israeli people earnestly plead with you knowing that they are suffering because they have sinned, and if they stretch out their arms toward this temple and pray,” (Source: Translation for Translators)