When you pray, don’t babble like the Gentiles, since they imagine they’ll be heard for their many words.

你们祷告，不可像外邦人，用许多重复话，他们以为话多了必蒙垂听。

你们祷告，不可像外邦人那样重复一些空话，他们以为话多了必蒙垂听。

你们祷告，不可像外邦人那样重复一些空话，他们以为话多了必蒙垂听。

“你们祷告时不可像外族人那样喋喋不休，他们以为长篇大论，就必蒙上帝垂听。

你们祈祷的时候，不可重复无意义的话，像教外人一样，他们以为话多了就蒙垂听。

你们祷告的时候，不要像外邦人那样，重复无意义的话。他们以为话多了就蒙垂听。

你們禱告，不可像外邦人，用許多重複話，他們以為話多了必蒙垂聽。

你們禱告，不可像外邦人那樣重複一些空話，他們以為話多了必蒙垂聽。

你們禱告，不可像外邦人那樣重複一些空話，他們以為話多了必蒙垂聽。

「你們禱告時不可像外族人那樣喋喋不休，他們以為長篇大論，就必蒙上帝垂聽。

你們祈禱的時候，不可重複無意義的話，像教外人一樣，他們以為話多了就蒙垂聽。

『你們禱告，不要嘮嘮叨叨、像外國人一樣；他們以為用了他們那種重複話，才可以蒙垂聽。

你們禱告的時候，不要像外邦人那樣，重複無意義的話。他們以為話多了就蒙垂聽。

爾祈禱、語勿重複、如異邦人、彼以為言多乃得升聞也、

爾祈禱時、語勿反覆、如異邦人、彼以為言多、乃得聲聞也、

且爾祈禱時、語勿反覆、如異邦人、彼以為言多、必蒙聽允、

祈禱時、毋多言、如異邦人之所為；蓋彼以為冗長其辭、必蒙垂聽矣。

And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words.

When you pray, do not keep talking on and on. That is what ungodly people do. They think they will be heard because they talk a lot.

“ And when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words.

“ When you pray, don’t babble on and on as the Gentiles do. They think their prayers are answered merely by repeating their words again and again.

“ And when you are praying, do not use thoughtless repetition as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard because of their many words.

And when you pray, do not use vain repetitions as the heathen do. For they think that they will be heard for their many words.

And in praying use not vain repetitions, as the Gentiles do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.

When you pray, don’t babble like the idolaters, since they imagine they’ll be heard for their many words.

But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen[ do]: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.

When you pray, do not babble repetitiously like the Gentiles, because they think that by their many words they will be heard.

In praying, don’t use vain repetitions, as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard for their much speaking.

Do not be hasty to speak, and do not be impulsive to make a speech before God. God is in heaven and you are on earth, so let your words be few.Just as dreams accompany much labor, so also a fool’s voice comes with many words.

For many dreams bring futility; so do many words. Therefore, fear God.

So they took the bull that he gave them, prepared it, and called on the name of Baal from morning until noon, saying,“ Baal, answer us!” But there was no sound; no one answered. Then they danced around the altar they had made.At noon Elijah mocked them. He said,“ Shout loudly, for he’s a god! Maybe he’s thinking it over; maybe he has wandered away; or maybe he’s on the road. Perhaps he’s sleeping and will wake up!”They shouted loudly, and cut themselves with knives and spears, according to their custom, until blood gushed over them.All afternoon they kept on raving until the offering of the evening sacrifice, but there was no sound; no one answered, no one paid attention.

After leaving them, he went away again and prayed a third time, saying the same thing once more.

But when they recognized that he was a Jew, they all shouted in unison for about two hours,“ Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”

Now LORD God of Israel, please confirm what you promised to your servant, my father David.But will God indeed live on earth? Even heaven, the highest heaven, cannot contain you, much less this temple I have built.Listen to your servant’s prayer and his petition, LORD my God, so that you may hear the cry and the prayer that your servant prays before you today,so that your eyes may watch over this temple night and day, toward the place where you said,“ My name will be there,” and so that you may hear the prayer that your servant prays toward this place.Hear the petition of your servant and your people Israel, which they pray toward this place. May you hear in your dwelling place in heaven. May you hear and forgive.When a man sins against his neighbor and is forced to take an oath, and he comes to take an oath before your altar in this temple,may you hear in heaven and act. May you judge your servants, condemning the wicked man by bringing what he has done on his own head and providing justice for the righteous by rewarding him according to his righteousness.When your people Israel are defeated before an enemy, because they have sinned against you, and they return to you and praise your name, and they pray and plead with you for mercy in this temple,may you hear in heaven and forgive the sin of your people Israel. May you restore them to the land you gave their ancestors.When the skies are shut and there is no rain, because they have sinned against you, and they pray toward this place and praise your name, and they turn from their sins because you are afflicting them,may you hear in heaven and forgive the sin of your servants and your people Israel, so that you may teach them to walk on the good way. May you send rain on your land that you gave your people for an inheritance.When there is famine in the land, when there is pestilence, when there is blight or mildew, locust or grasshopper, when their enemy besieges them in the land and its cities, when there is any plague or illness,every prayer or petition that any person or that all your people Israel may have— they each know their own affliction— as they spread out their hands toward this temple,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,so that they may fear you all the days they live on the land you gave our ancestors.Even for the foreigner who is not of your people Israel but has come from a distant land because of your name—for they will hear of your great name, strong hand, and outstretched arm, and will come and pray toward this temple—may you hear in heaven, your dwelling place, and do according to all the foreigner asks. Then all peoples of earth will know your name, to fear you as your people Israel do and to know that this temple I have built bears your name.When your people go out to fight against their enemies, wherever you send them, and they pray to the LORD in the direction of the city you have chosen and the temple I have built for your name,may you hear their prayer and petition in heaven and uphold their cause.When they sin against you— for there is no one who does not sin— and you are angry with them and hand them over to the enemy, and their captors deport them to the enemy’s country— whether distant or nearby—and when they come to their senses in the land where they were deported and repent and petition you in their captors’ land:“ We have sinned and done wrong; we have been wicked,”and when they return to you with all their heart and all their soul in the land of their enemies who took them captive, and when they pray to you in the direction of their land that you gave their ancestors, the city you have chosen, and the temple I have built for your name,may you hear in heaven, your dwelling place, their prayer and petition and uphold their cause.May you forgive your people who sinned against you and all their rebellions against you, and may you grant them compassion before their captors, so that they may treat them compassionately.For they are your people and your inheritance; you brought them out of Egypt, out of the middle of an iron furnace.May your eyes be open to your servant’s petition and to the petition of your people Israel, listening to them whenever they call to you.For you, Lord GOD, have set them apart as your inheritance from all peoples of the earth, as you spoke through your servant Moses when you brought our ancestors out of Egypt.When Solomon finished praying this entire prayer and petition to the LORD, he got up from kneeling before the altar of the LORD, with his hands spread out toward heaven,

Going a little farther, he fell facedown and prayed,“ My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will.”

For the Gentiles eagerly seek all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.

If he doesn’t pay attention to them, tell the church. If he doesn’t pay attention even to the church, let him be like a Gentile and a tax collector to you.

Listen closely, my God, and hear. Open your eyes and see our desolations and the city that bears your name. For we are not presenting our petitions before you based on our righteous acts, but based on your abundant compassion.Lord, hear! Lord, forgive! Lord, listen and act! My God, for your own sake, do not delay, because your city and your people bear your name.

Again, a second time, he went away and prayed,“ My Father, if this cannot pass unless I drink it, your will be done.”