18. “But will God really live on earth among people? Why, even the highest heavens cannot contain you. How much less this Temple I have built!
19. Nevertheless, listen to my prayer and my plea, O lord my God. Hear the cry and the prayer that your servant is making to you.
20. May you watch over this Temple day and night, this place where you have said you would put your name. May you always hear the prayers I make toward this place.
21. May you hear the humble and earnest requests from me and your people Israel when we pray toward this place. Yes, hear us from heaven where you live, and when you hear, forgive.
22. “If someone wrongs another person and is required to take an oath of innocence in front of your altar at this Temple,
23. then hear from heaven and judge between your servants—the accuser and the accused. Pay back the guilty as they deserve. Acquit the innocent because of their innocence.
24. “If your people Israel are defeated by their enemies because they have sinned against you, and if they turn back and acknowledge your name and pray to you here in this Temple,