28. But I ask you to answer my prayer.
29. This is the temple where you have chosen to be worshipped. Please watch over it day and night and listen when I turn towards it and pray.
30. I am your servant, and the people of Israel belong to you. So whenever any of us look towards this temple and pray, answer from your home in heaven and forgive our sins.
31. Suppose someone accuses a person of a crime, and the accused has to stand in front of the altar in your temple and say, “I swear I am innocent!”
32. Listen from heaven and decide who is right. Then punish the guilty person and let the innocent one go free.
33. Suppose your people Israel sin against you, and then an enemy defeats them. If they come to this temple and beg for forgiveness,
34. listen from your home in heaven. Forgive them and bring them back to the land you gave their ancestors.
35. Suppose your people sin against you, and you punish them by holding back the rain. If they turn towards this temple and pray in your name and stop sinning,
36. listen from your home in heaven and forgive them. The people of Israel are your servants, so teach them to live right. And please send rain on the land you promised them for ever.