17. O God, God of Israel, let this all happen—confirm and establish it!
18-21. Can it be that God will actually move into our neighborhood? Why, the cosmos itself isn’t large enough to give you breathing room, let alone this Temple I’ve built. Even so, I’m bold to ask: Pay attention to these my prayers, both intercessory and personal, O God, my God. Listen to my prayers, energetic and devout, that I’m setting before you right now. Keep your eyes open to this Temple day and night, this place you promised to dignify with your Name. And listen to the prayers that I pray in this place. And listen to your people Israel when they pray at this place.Listen from your home in heavenand when you hear, forgive.
22. When someone hurts a neighbor and promises to make things right, and then comes and repeats the promise before your Altar in this Temple,
23. Listen from heaven and act;judge your servants, making the offender pay for the offenseAnd set the offended free,dismissing all charges.
24-25. When your people Israel are beaten by an enemy because they’ve sinned against you, but then turn to you and acknowledge your rule in prayers desperate and devout in this Temple,Listen from your home in heaven;forgive the sin of your people Israel,return them to the land you gave to them and their ancestors.
26-27. When the skies shrivel up and there is no rain because your people have sinned against you, but then they pray at this place, acknowledging your rule and quit their sins because you have scourged them,Listen from your home in heaven,forgive the sins of your servants, your people Israel.Then start over with them;train them to live right and well;Send rain on the landyou gave as inheritance to your people.
28-31. When disasters strike, famine or catastrophe, crop failure or disease, locust or beetle, or when an enemy attacks their defenses—calamity of any sort—any prayer that’s prayed from anyone at all among your people Israel, their hearts penetrated by disaster, hands and arms thrown out for help to this Temple,Listen from your home in heaven, forgive and reward us:reward each life and circumstance,For you know each life from the inside,(you’re the only one with such inside knowledge!),So they’ll live before you in lifelong reverence and believingobedience on this land you gave our ancestors.
32. And don’t forget the foreigner who is not a member of your people Israel but has come from a far country because of your reputation—people are going to be attracted here by your great reputation, your wonderworking power—and who come to pray to this Temple.
33. Listen from your home in heavenand honor the prayers of the foreigner,So that people all over the worldwill know who you are and what you’re like,And live in reverent obedience before you,just as your own people Israel do,So they’ll know that you personallymake this Temple that I’ve built what it is.
34-35. When your people go to war against their enemies at the time and place you send them and they pray to God toward the city you chose and The Temple I’ve built to honor your Name,Listen from heaven to what they pray and ask forand do what is right for them.