²⁰ Nog zegt gij: De weg des Heeren is niet recht; Ik zal ulieden richten, een ieder naar zijn wegen, o huis Israels!

²⁵ En gij, mensenkind! zal het niet zijn, ten dage, als Ik van hen zal wegnemen hun sterkte, de vreugde huns sieraads, den lust hunner ogen en het verlangen hunner zielen, hun zonen en hun dochteren;

¹² Yahweh appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him, "I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for a house of sacrifice.

¹³ "If I shut up the sky so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;

¹⁴ if my people, who are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

¹⁵ Now my eyes shall be open, and my ears attentive, to the prayer that is made in this place.

¹⁶ For now have I chosen and made this house holy, that my name may be there forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.