1 Kings 8:35–40

^35yWhen heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; if they pray towards this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou afflictest them: ³⁶then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, that thou ^zteach them ^athe good way wherein they should walk, and give rain upon thy land, which thou hast given to thy people for an inheritance.

^37bIf there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpillar; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be; ³⁸what prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and ^cspread forth his hands towards this house: ³⁹then hear thou in heaven ^dthy dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and give to every man according to his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou, even thou only, ^eknowest the hearts of all the children of men;) ⁴⁰that they may fear thee ^fall the days that they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.