[8:54] After Solomon had finished praying to the Lord, he stood up in front of the altar, where he had been kneeling with uplifted hands.
[8:55] In a loud voice he asked God's blessings on all the people assembled there. He said,
[8:56] “Praise the Lord who has given his people peace, as he promised he would. He has kept all the generous promises he made through his servant Moses.
[8:57] May the Lord our God be with us as he was with our ancestors; may he never leave us or abandon us;
[8:58] may he make us obedient to him, so that we will always live as he wants us to live, keeping all the laws and commands he gave our ancestors.
[8:59] May the Lord our God remember at all times this prayer and these petitions I have made to him. May he always be merciful to the people of Israel and to their king, according to their daily needs.
[8:60] And so all the nations of the world will know that the Lord alone is God—there is no other.
[8:61] May you, his people, always be faithful to the Lord our God, obeying all his laws and commands as you do today.”