⁴⁶“When your people sin against you—and there is no one who does not sin—and in your anger you let their enemies defeat them and take them as prisoners to some other land, even if that land is far away, ⁴⁷listen to your people’s prayers. If there in that land they repent and pray to you, confessing how sinful and wicked they have been, hear their prayers, O Lord. ⁴⁸If in that land they truly and sincerely repent, and pray to you as they face towards this land which you gave to our ancestors, this city which you have chosen, and this Temple which I have built for you, ⁴⁹then listen to their prayers. In your home in heaven hear them and be merciful to them. ⁵⁰Forgive all their sins and their rebellion against you, and make their enemies treat them with kindness. ⁵¹They are your own people, whom you brought out of Egypt, that blazing furnace.

⁵²“Sovereign Lord, may you always look with favour on your people Israel and their king, and hear their prayer whenever they call to you for help. ⁵³You chose them from all the peoples to be your own people, as you told them through your servant Moses when you brought our ancestors out of Egypt.”

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