27 But will God indeed live on earth?

Even heaven, the highest heaven, cannot contain you,

much less this temple I have built.l

28 ListenB to your servant’s prayer and his petition,m

Lord my God,

so that you may hear the cry and the prayer

that your servant prays before you today,

29 so that your eyes may watch over this temple night and day,n

toward the place where you said,

“My name will be there,”o

and so that you may hear the prayer

that your servant prays toward this place.

30 Hear the petition of your servantp

and your people Israel,

which they pray toward this place.q

May you hear in your dwelling place in heaven.

May you hear and forgive.

31 When a man sins against his neighbor

and is forced to take an oath,C,r

and he comes to take an oath

before your altar in this temple,

32 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.sh

33 When 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,

34 may you hear in heaven

and forgive the sin of your people Israel.

May you restore them to the land

you gave their ancestors.u

35 When 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

36 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.a

May you send rain on your land

that you gave your people for an inheritance.b

37 When 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,A

when there is any plague or illness,

38 every prayer or petition

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

they each know their own affliction—B,d

as they spread out their hands toward this temple,e

39 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,f

40 so that they may fearg you

all the days they live on the landh

you gave our ancestors.