1 Kings 8:33–43

³³When Your people Israel are defeated before an enemy,

because they have sinned against You, ⁱ

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. ^j

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

because they have sinned against You, ^k

and they pray toward this place

and praise Your name,

and they turn from their sins

because You are afflicting them, ^l

³⁶may 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. ^m

May You send rain on Your land

that You gave Your people for an inheritance. ⁿ

³⁷When there is famine on the earth,

when there is pestilence,

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

when their enemy besieges them

in the region of their fortified cities, ^p

when there is any plague or illness,

³⁸whatever prayer or petition

anyone from Your people Israel might have—

each man knowing his own afflictions ^qr

and spreading out his hands toward this temple ^s—

³⁹may You hear in heaven, Your dwelling place,

and may You forgive, act, and repay the man,

according to all his ways, since You know his heart,

for You alone know every human heart, ^t

⁴⁰so that they may fear ^uYou

all the days they live on the land ^v

You gave our ancestors.

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

but has come from a distant land ^w

because of Your name—

⁴²for they will hear of Your great name,

mighty hand, ^xand outstretched arm,

and will come ^yand pray toward this temple—

⁴³may You hear in heaven, Your dwelling place,

and do according to all the foreigner asks You for.

Then all the people on earth will know ^zYour name,

to fear You as Your people Israel do

and know that this temple I have built

is called by Your name.