1 Kings 8:39-53

VIN(i) 39 then hear from heaven, the place where you reside, and forgive, repaying each person according to all of his ways, since you know their hearts for you alone know the hearts of all human beings 40 that they may fear you all the days that they live in the land which you gave to our fathers. 41 Also for the foreigner who is not from your people Israel, and he comes from a distant land because of your name, 42 (for they shall hear of your great name, and of your mighty hand, and of your outstretched arm); when he comes and prays toward this house; 43 then hear in heaven where you reside, and do whatever the foreigner asks of you, so that all the people of the earth may know your name, fear you as do your people Israel, and so they may know that this temple that I have built is called by your name. 44 »When your people go to war against their enemies, they pray to you, O the LORD, toward the city you have chosen and the temple I built for your name. 45 then hear in Heaven their prayer and their cry, and maintain their cause. 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, 47 yet if they shall think within themselves in the land where they are carried captives, and repent, and pray to You in the land of their captors saying, We have sinned and have done perversely, we have done wickedly, 48 and return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies who captured them; and pray to you toward the land you gave their fathers - the city you chose and the house I built for your name: 49 then in heaven, the place where you live, hear their prayer for mercy. Do what is right for them. 50 »Forgive your people, who have sinned against you. Forgive all their wrongs when they rebelled against you. Cause those who captured them to have mercy on them. 51 (for they are your people, and your inheritance, which you brought out of Egypt, from the midst of the iron furnace); 52 Let your eyes be open to your servant's prayer for grace and to the prayer of your people Israel, hearing them when their cry comes to you. 53 "You the LORD set them apart from all the people of the world. They are your own as you promised through your servant Moses when you brought our ancestors out of Egypt."