41. ‘As for the foreigner who does not belong to your people Israel but has come from a distant land because of your name –
42. for they will hear of your great name and your mighty hand and your outstretched arm – when they come and pray towards this temple,
43. then hear from heaven, your dwelling-place. Do whatever the foreigner asks of you, so that all the peoples of the earth may know your name and fear you, as do your own people Israel, and may know that this house I have built bears your Name.
44. ‘When your people go to war against their enemies, wherever you send them, and when they pray to the Lord towards the city you have chosen and the temple I have built for your Name,
45. then hear from heaven their prayer and their plea, and uphold their cause.
46. ‘When they sin against you – for there is no one who does not sin – and you become angry with them and give them over to their enemies, who take them captive to their own lands, far away or near;
47. and if they have a change of heart in the land where they are held captive, and repent and plead with you in the land of their captors and say, “We have sinned, we have done wrong, we have acted wickedly”;
48. and if they turn back to you with all their heart and soul in the land of their enemies who took them captive, and pray to you towards the land you gave their ancestors, towards the city you have chosen and the temple I have built for your Name;
49. then from heaven, your dwelling-place, hear their prayer and their plea, and uphold their cause.
50. And forgive your people, who have sinned against you; forgive all the offences they have committed against you, and cause their captors to show them mercy;
51. for they are your people and your inheritance, whom you brought out of Egypt, out of that iron-smelting furnace.