23 He said, “O Lord, the God of Israel, athere is no God like You in heaven above or on earth beneath, bkeeping covenant and showing lovingkindness to Your servants who walk before You with all their heart,

24 who have kept with Your servant, my father David, that which You have 1promised him; indeed, You have spoken with Your mouth and have fulfilled it with Your hand as it is this day.

25 “Now therefore, O Lord, the God of Israel, keep with Your servant David my father that which You have 1promised him, saying, ‘2aYou shall not lack a man to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your sons take heed to their way to walk before Me as you have walked.’

26 “Now therefore, O God of Israel, let Your word, I pray, be confirmed awhich You have spoken to Your servant, my father David.

27 “But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, aheaven and the 1highest heaven cannot contain You, how much less this house which I have built!

28 “Yet have regard to the aprayer of Your servant and to his supplication, O Lord my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which Your servant prays before You today;

29 athat Your eyes may be open toward this house night and day, toward bthe place of which You have said, ‘My name shall be there,’ to listen to the prayer which Your servant shall pray toward this place.

30 “aListen to the supplication of Your servant and of Your people Israel, bwhen they pray toward this place; hear in heaven Your dwelling place; hear and cforgive.

31 “aIf a man sins against his neighbor and is made to take an oath, and he comes and takes an oath before Your altar in this house,

32 then hear in heaven and act and judge Your servants, acondemning the wicked by bringing his way on his own head and justifying the righteous by giving him according to his righteousness.

33 “aWhen Your people Israel are 1defeated before an enemy, because they have sinned against You, bif they turn to You again and confess Your name and pray and make supplication to You in this house,

34 then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of Your people Israel, and bring them back to the land which You gave to their fathers.

35 “aWhen the heavens 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,

36 then hear in heaven and forgive the sin of Your servants and of Your people Israel, aindeed, teach them the good way in which they should walk. And bsend rain on Your land, which You have given Your people for an inheritance.

37 “aIf there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is blight or mildew, locust or grasshopper, if their enemy besieges them in the land of their 1cities, whatever plague, whatever sickness there is,

38 whatever prayer or supplication is made by any man or by all Your people Israel, 1each knowing the 2affliction of his own heart, and spreading his 3hands toward this house;

39 then hear in heaven Your dwelling place, and forgive and act and render to each according to all his ways, awhose heart You know, for bYou alone know the hearts of all the sons of men,

40 that they may 1fear You all the days that they live 2in the land which You have given to our fathers.

41 “Also concerning the foreigner who is not of Your people Israel, when he comes from a far country for Your name’s sake

42 (for they will hear of Your great name aand Your mighty hand, and of Your outstretched arm); when he comes and prays toward this house,

43 hear in heaven Your dwelling place, and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to You, in order athat all the peoples of the earth may know Your name, to 1fear You, as do Your people Israel, and that they may know that 2this house which I have built is called by Your name.

44 “When Your people go out to battle against 1their enemy, by whatever way You shall send them, and athey pray to the Lord 2toward the city which You have chosen and the house which I have built for Your name,

45 then hear in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their 1cause.

46 “When they sin against You (for athere is no man who does not sin) and You are angry with them and deliver them to an enemy, so that 1they take them away captive bto the land of the enemy, far off or near;

47 aif they 1take thought in the land where they have been taken captive, and repent and make supplication to You in the land of those who have taken them captive, saying, ‘bWe have sinned and have committed iniquity, we have acted wickedly’;

48 aif they return to You with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies who have taken them captive, and bpray to You toward their land which You have given to their fathers, the city which You have chosen, and the house which I have built for Your name;

49 then hear their prayer and their supplication in heaven Your dwelling place, and maintain their 1cause,

50 and forgive Your people who have sinned against You and all their transgressions which they have transgressed against You, and amake them objects of compassion before those who have taken them captive, that they may have compassion on them

51 (afor they are Your people and Your inheritance which You have brought forth from Egypt, bfrom the midst of the iron furnace),

52 athat Your eyes may be open to the supplication of Your servant and to the supplication of Your people Israel, to listen to them whenever they call to You.

53 “For You have separated them from all the peoples of the earth as Your inheritance, aas You spoke through Moses Your servant, when You brought our fathers forth from Egypt, O Lord 1God.”