36. then listen from heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel. Teach them the best way for them to follow, and send rain on your land that you gave to your people as an inheritance.
37. Whenever there is a famine or plague in the land; or whenever there is blight, mildew, locust, or grasshopper; or whenever someone’s enemy attacks them in their cities; or any plague or illness comes;
38. whatever prayer or petition is made by any individual or by all of your people Israel—because people will recognize their own pain and spread out their hands toward this temple—
39. then listen from heaven where you live. Forgive, act, and repay each person according to all their conduct, because you know their hearts. You alone know the human heart.
40. Do this so that they may revere you all the days they live on the land that you gave to our ancestors.
41. Listen also to the immigrant who isn’t from your people Israel but who comes from a distant country because of your reputation—
42. because they will hear of your great reputation, your great power, and your outstretched arm. When the immigrant comes and prays toward this temple,
43. then listen from heaven, where you live, and do everything the immigrant asks. Do this so that all the people of the earth may know your reputation and revere you, as your people Israel do, and recognize that this temple I have built bears your name.