2 Chronicles 6:26–39

²⁶“When the ^aheavens are shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against You, and they pray toward this place and confess Your name, and turn from their sin when You afflict them;

²⁷then listen in heaven and forgive the sin of Your slaves and of Your people Israel; indeed, ^ateach them the good way in which they should walk. And give rain on Your land, which You have given to Your people for an inheritance.

²⁸“If there is ^afamine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is scorching wind or mildew, if there is locust or grasshopper, if their enemies besiege them in the land of their ¹cities, whatever plague or whatever sickness there is,

²⁹whatever prayer or supplication is made by any man or by all Your people Israel, who know his own affliction and his own pain, and spread his hands toward this house,

³⁰then listen from heaven Your dwelling place, and forgive, and give to each according to all his ways, whose heart You know, ^afor You alone know the hearts of the sons of men,

³¹that they may ¹fear You, to walk in Your ways all the days they live upon the face of the land which You have given to our fathers.

³²“Also concerning ^athe foreigner who is not of Your people Israel, if he comes from a far country for Your great name’s sake and Your strong hand and Your outstretched arm, so if they come and pray toward this house,

³³then listen from heaven, from Your dwelling place, and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to You, in order that all the peoples of the earth may know Your name even to ¹fear You, as do Your people Israel, and to know that Your name is ^acalled upon this house which I have built.

³⁴“When Your people go out to battle against their enemies, by whatever way You shall send them, and they pray to You toward this city which You have chosen and the house which I have built for Your name,

³⁵then listen from heaven to their prayer and their supplication, and do justice.

³⁶“When they sin against You (^afor there is no man who does not sin) and You are angry with them and give them over to an enemy, so that ¹they take them away captive to a land far off or near,

³⁷and if they ^acause these things to return to their heart in the land where they have been taken captive, and ¹return and make supplication to You in the land of their captivity, saying, ‘We have sinned, we have committed iniquity and have acted wickedly’;

^38aand if they return to You with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, where they have been taken captive, and pray toward their land which You have given to their fathers and the city which You have chosen, and toward the house which I have built for Your name,

³⁹then listen from heaven, from Your dwelling place, to their prayer and supplications, and do justice for them and forgive Your people who have sinned against You.