⁴⁴If your people go out to battle against his enemy in the way that you shall send them and they pray to Yahweh, toward the city which you have chosen and the house which I have built for your name, ⁴⁵then you shall hear in heaven their prayer and their plea, and you shall vindicate^t them.

⁴⁶“If they sin against you (for there is not a person who does not sin) and you are angry with them and you give them to an enemy and they take them captive to the land of the enemy far or near, ⁴⁷and then they return their heart in the land where they have been taken captive and they return and plead to you in the land of their captivity, saying, ‘We have sinned and we did wrong. We acted wickedly,’ ⁴⁸if they return to you with all of their heart and with all of their soul in the land of their enemies who took them captive and they pray to you toward their land which you gave to their ancestors,^u the city that you have chosen and the house that you^v built for your name, ⁴⁹then you shall hear in heaven, the place of your dwelling, their prayer and their plea, and you shall vindicate them.^w

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Footnotes

tLiterally “their judgment”
uOr “fathers”
vThe Hebrew Masoretic text (Kethib) reads “you have built”;Qere reads “I have built”
wLiterally “and you shall do their justice”