New King James Version

1 Kings 8:37-41 New King James Version (NKJV)

37. “When there is famine in the land, pestilence or blight or mildew, locusts or grasshoppers; when their enemy besieges them in the land of their cities; whatever plague or whatever sickness there is;

38. whatever prayer, whatever supplication is made by anyone, or by all Your people Israel, when each one knows the plague of his own heart, and spreads out his hands toward this temple:

39. then hear in heaven Your dwelling place, and forgive, and act, and give to everyone according to all his ways, whose heart You know (for You alone know the hearts of all the sons of men),

40. that they may fear You all the days that they live in the land which You gave to our fathers.

41. “Moreover, concerning a foreigner, who is not of Your people Israel, but has come from a far country for Your name’s sake