2 Chronicles 6:26–39

²⁶When the skies are shut and there is no rain

because they have sinned against you,

and they pray toward this place

and praise your name,

and they turn from their sins

because you are afflictingⁱ them,

²⁷may you hear in heaven

and forgive the sin of your servants

and your people Israel,

so that you may teach them the good way

they should walk in.

May you send rain on your land

that you gave your people for an inheritance.

²⁸When there is famine in the land,

when there is pestilence,

when there is blight or mildew, locust or grasshopper,

when their enemies besiege them

in the land and its cities,^Bj

when there is any plague or illness,

²⁹every prayer or petition

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

they each know their own affliction^D and suffering—

as they spread out their hands toward this temple,

³⁰may you hear in heaven, your dwelling place,

and may you forgive and give to everyone^E

according to all their ways, since you know each heart,

for you alone know the human heart,^a

³¹so that they may fear you

and walk in your ways

all the days they live on the land

you gave our ancestors.

³²Even for the foreigner who is not of your people Israel

but has come from a distant land

because of your great name

and your strong hand and outstretched arm:^b

when he comes and prays toward this temple,

³³may you hear in heaven in your dwelling place,

and do all the foreigner asks you.

Then all the peoples of the earth will know your name,

to fear you as your people Israel do

and know that this temple I have built

bears your name.^c

³⁴When your people go out to fight against their enemies,

wherever you send them,

and they pray to you

in the direction of this city you have chosen^d

and the temple that I have built for your name,

³⁵may you hear their prayer and petition in heaven

and uphold their cause.

³⁶When they sin against you—

for there is no one who does not sin^e—

and you are angry with them

and hand them over to the enemy,

and their captors deport them

to a distant or nearby country,

³⁷and when they come to their senses

in the land where they were deported

and repent and petition you in their captors’ land,

saying, “We have sinned and done wrong;

we have been wicked,”

³⁸and when they return to you with all their mind and all their heart

in the land of their captivity where they were taken captive,

and when they pray in the direction of their land

that you gave their ancestors,

and the city you have chosen,

and toward the temple I have built for your name,

³⁹may you hear their prayer and petitions in heaven,

your dwelling place,

and uphold their cause.^A

May you forgive your people

who sinned against you.