37. “When there is famine in the land or an epidemic, or the crops are destroyed by scorching winds or swarms of locusts, or when your people are attacked by their enemies, or when there is disease or sickness among them,
38. listen to their prayers. If any of your people Israel, out of heartfelt sorrow, stretch out their hands in prayer towards this Temple,
39. hear their prayer. Listen to them in your home in heaven, forgive them, and help them. You alone know the thoughts of the human heart. Deal with each person as he deserves,
40. so that your people may obey you all the time they live in the land which you gave to our ancestors.
41-42. “When a foreigner who lives in a distant land hears of your fame and of the great things you have done for your people, and comes to worship you and to pray at this Temple,
43. listen to his prayer. In heaven, where you live, hear him and do what he asks you to do, so that all the peoples of the world may know you and obey you, as your people Israel do. Then they will know that this Temple I have built is the place where you are to be worshipped.
44. “When you command your people to go into battle against their enemies and they pray to you, wherever they are, facing this city which you have chosen and this Temple which I have built for you,
45. listen to their prayers. Hear them in heaven, and give them victory.
46. “When your people sin against you — and there is no one who does not sin — and in your anger you let their enemies defeat them and take them as prisoners to some other land, even if that land is far away,
47. listen to your people's prayers. If there in that land they repent and pray to you, confessing how sinful and wicked they have been, hear their prayers, O Lord.
48. If in that land they truly and sincerely repent, and pray to you as they face towards this land which you gave to our ancestors, this city which you have chosen, and this Temple which I have built for you,
49. then listen to their prayers. In your home in heaven hear them and be merciful to them.
50. Forgive all their sins and their rebellion against you, and make their enemies treat them with kindness.
51. They are your own people, whom you brought out of Egypt, that blazing furnace.
52. “Sovereign Lord, may you always look with favour on your people Israel and their king, and hear their prayer whenever they call to you for help.