36. Then hear you in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, and of your people Israel, that you teach them the good way in which they should walk, and give rain upon your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance.
37. If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blight, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpillar; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be;
38. Whatsoever prayer and supplication be made by any man, or by all your people Israel, who shall know every man the affliction of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:
39. Then hear you in heaven your dwelling place, and forgive, and act, and give to every man according to his ways, whose heart you know; (for you, even you only, know the hearts of all the children of men;)
40. That they may fear you all the days that they live in the land which you gave unto our fathers.
41. Moreover concerning a stranger, that is not of your people Israel, but comes out of a far country for your name's sake;
42. (For they shall hear of your great name, and of your strong hand, and of your outstretched arm;) when he shall come and pray toward this house;