38. Listen when anyone in Israel truly feels sorry and sincerely prays with arms lifted towards your temple.
39. You know what is in everyone's heart. So from your home in heaven answer their prayers, according to the way they live and what is in their hearts.
40. Then your people will worship and obey you for as long as they live in the land you gave their ancestors.
41-42. Foreigners will hear about you and your mighty power, and some of them will come to live among your people Israel. If any of them pray towards this temple,
43. listen from your home in heaven and answer their prayers. Then everyone on earth will worship you, just like your people Israel, and they will know that I have built this temple to honour you.
44. Our Lord, sometimes you will order your people to attack their enemies. Then your people will turn towards this temple I have built for you in your chosen city, and they will pray to you.
45. Answer their prayers from heaven and give them victory.
46. Everyone sins. But when your people sin against you, suppose you get angry enough to let their enemies drag them away to foreign countries.
47-49. Later, they may feel sorry for what they did and ask your forgiveness. Answer them when they pray towards this temple I have built for you in your chosen city, here in this land you gave their ancestors. From your home in heaven, listen to their sincere prayers and do what they ask.
50. Forgive your people no matter how much they have sinned against you. Make the enemies who defeated them be kind to them.
51. Remember, they are the people you chose and rescued from Egypt that was like a blazing fire to them.