2 Chronicles 7:15
Good News Translation
I will watch over this Temple and be ready to hear all the prayers that are offered here,

New Revised Standard Version
Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayer that is made in this place.

Contemporary English Version
I will hear the prayers made in this temple,

New American Bible
Now, therefore, my eyes shall be open and my ears attentive to the prayer of this place;

Douay-Rheims Bible
My eyes also shall be open, and my ears attentive to the prayer of him that shall pray in this place.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

My eyes also shall be open, and my ears attentive to the prayer of him that shall pray in this place.

mine eyes

2 Chronicles 6:20,40 That thou mayest open thy eyes upon this house day and night, upon the place wherein thou hast promised that thy name should be called upon, . . .

Deuteronomy 11:12 And the Lord thy God doth always visit it, and his eyes are on it from the beginning of the year unto the end thereof.

Nehemiah 1:6 Let thy ears be attentive, and thy eyes open, to hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee now, night and day, for the children of Israel thy servants: and I confess the sins of the children of Israel, by which they have sinned against thee: I and my father's house have sinned.

Psalm 65:2 O hear my prayer: all flesh shall come to thee.

Psalm 130:2 Lord, hear my voice. Let thy ears be attentive to the voice of my supplication.

1 Peter 3:12 Because the eyes of the Lord are upon the just, and his ears unto their prayers but the countenance of the Lord upon them that do evil things.

2 Chronicles 6:40 For thou art my God: let thy eyes, I beseech thee, be open, and let thy ears be attentive to the prayer, that is made in this place.

Context
The LORD's Response to Solomon
14And my people, upon whom my name is called, being converted, shall make supplication to me, and seek out my face, and do penance for their most wicked ways: then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sins and will heal their land. 15My eyes also shall be open, and my ears attentive to the prayer of him that shall pray in this place.16For I have chosen, and have sanctified this place, that my name may be there for ever, and my eyes and my heart may remain there perpetually.…
Cross References
1 Kings 8:29
That thy eyes may be open upon this house, night and day: upon the house of which thou hast said: My name shall be there: that thou mayst hearken to the prayer which thy servant prayeth, in this place to thee:

2 Chronicles 6:20
That thou mayest open thy eyes upon this house day and night, upon the place wherein thou hast promised that thy name should be called upon,

2 Chronicles 6:40
For thou art my God: let thy eyes, I beseech thee, be open, and let thy ears be attentive to the prayer, that is made in this place.

2 Chronicles 7:14
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