44. “If your people go out where you send them to fight their enemies, and if they pray to the lord by turning toward this city you have chosen and toward this Temple I have built to honor your name,
45. then hear their prayers from heaven and uphold their cause.
46. “If they sin against you—and who has never sinned?—you might become angry with them and let their enemies conquer them and take them captive to their land far away or near.
47. But in that land of exile, they might turn to you in repentance and pray, ‘We have sinned, done evil, and acted wickedly.’
48. If they turn to you with their whole heart and soul in the land of their enemies and pray toward the land you gave to their ancestors—toward this city you have chosen, and toward this Temple I have built to honor your name—