2 Chronicles 20:3–12

³Jehoshaphat was afraid, and he resolved^o to seek the Lord. Then he proclaimed a fast^p for all Judah, ⁴who gathered to seek the Lord. They even came from all the cities of Judah to seek him.

JEHOSHAPHAT’S PRAYER

⁵Then Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem in the Lord’s temple before the new courtyard. ⁶He said:

Lord, God of our ancestors, are you not the God who is in heaven,^q and do you not rule over all the kingdoms of the nations?^r Power and might are in your hand, and no one can stand against you. ⁷Are you not our God who drove out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel^s and who gave it forever to the descendants of Abraham^t your friend? ⁸They have lived in the land and have built you a sanctuary in it for your name and have said, ⁹“If disaster comes on us—sword or judgment, pestilence or famine^u—we will stand before this temple and before you, for your name is in this temple.^v We will cry out to you because of our distress, and you will hear and deliver.”

¹⁰Now here are the Ammonites, Moabites, and the inhabitants of Mount Seir.^w You did not let Israel invade them when Israel came out of the land of Egypt, but Israel turned away from them and did not destroy them.^{x 11}Look how they repay us by coming to drive us out of your possession that you gave us as an inheritance. ¹²Our God, will you not judge them?^y For we are powerless before this vast number that comes to fight against us. We do not know what to do, but we look to you.^Ca