1 Kings 8:33–43

^33wWhen thy people Israel be smitten down before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee, and ^xshall turn again to thee, and confess thy name, and pray, and make supplication unto thee ^||in this house: ³⁴Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest unto their fathers.

^35yWhen heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou afflictest them: ³⁶Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, that thou ^zteach them ^athe good way wherein they should walk, and give rain upon thy land, which thou hast given to thy people for an inheritance.

^37bIf there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpiller; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their ^||cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be; ³⁸What prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and ^cspread forth his hands toward this house: ³⁹Then hear thou in heaven ^dthy dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and give to every man according to his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou, even thou only, ^eknowest the hearts of all the children of men;) ⁴⁰That they may fear thee ^fall the days that they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.

⁴¹Moreover concerning a stranger, that is not of thy people Israel, but cometh out of a far country for thy name’s sake; ⁴²(For they shall hear of thy great name, and of thy ^gstrong hand, and of thy stretched out arm;) when he shall come and pray toward this house; ⁴³Hear thou in heaven ^dthy dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for: ^hthat all people of the earth may know thy name, to ⁱfear thee, as do thy people Israel; and that they may know that ^†this house, which I have builded, is called by thy name.