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 hear in heaven and forgive the sin of Your servants and Your people Israel, indeed, ^ateach them the good way in which they should walk. And send 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 blight 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, ¹each knowing his own affliction and his own pain, and spreading his hands toward this house,

³⁰then hear from heaven Your dwelling place, and forgive, and render 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 ²as long as they live in the land which You have given to our fathers.

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

³³then hear 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, and ¹fear You as do Your people Israel, and that they may know that ²this house which I have built is ^acalled by Your name.

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 hear from heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.

³⁶“When they sin against You (^afor there 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 to a land far off or near,

³⁷if they ¹take thought in the land where they are taken captive, and repent and make supplication to You in the land of their captivity, saying, ‘We have sinned, we have committed iniquity and have acted wickedly’;

^38aif 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 hear from heaven, from Your dwelling place, their prayer and supplications, and maintain their cause and forgive Your people who have sinned against You.