37. “If there is famine in the land or pestilence; or if blight comes, or mildew, or locusts, or caterpillars; if an enemy of your people presses upon them in the land and at their gates; whatever plague or sickness there may be;
38. whatever prayer or petition any may make, any of your people Israel, who know heartfelt remorse and stretch out their hands toward this house,
39. listen in heaven, the place of your enthronement; forgive and take action. Render to each and all according to their ways, you who know every heart; for it is you alone who know the heart of every human being.
40. So may they revere you as long as they live on the land you gave our ancestors.
41. “To the foreigners, likewise, who are not of your people Israel, but who come from a distant land for the sake of your name
42. (since people will hear of your great name and your mighty hand and your outstretched arm), when they come and pray toward this house,