1 Kings 8:33–43

³³When your people Israel are defeated before an enemy,

because they have sinned against you,^t

and they return to you and praise your name,

and they pray and plead with you

for mercy in this temple,

³⁴may you hear in heaven

and forgive the sin of your people Israel.

May you restore them to the land

you gave their ancestors.^u

³⁵When the skies are shut and there is no rain,

because they have sinned against you,^v

and they pray toward this place

and praise your name,

and they turn from their sins

because you are afflicting them,^w

³⁶may 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.^a

May you send rain on your land

that you gave your people for an inheritance.^b

³⁷When there is famine in the land,

when there is pestilence,

when there is blight or mildew, locust or grasshopper,^c

when their enemy besieges them

in the land and its cities,^B

when there is any plague or illness,

³⁸every prayer or petition

that any person or that all your people Israel may have—

they each know their own affliction—^Cd

as they spread out their hands toward this temple,^e

³⁹may 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,^f

⁴⁰so that they may fear^g you

all the days they live on the land^h

you gave our ancestors.

⁴¹Even for the foreigner who is not of your people Israel

but has come from a distant landⁱ

because of your name—

⁴²for they will hear of your great name,

strong hand,^j and outstretched arm,

and will come^k and pray toward this temple—

⁴³may you hear in heaven, your dwelling place,

and do according to all the foreigner asks.

Then all peoples of earth will know^l your name,

to fear you as your people Israel do

and to know that this temple I have built

bears your name.