48. if they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies, who carried them captive, and pray to you towards their land, which you gave to their fathers, the city which you have chosen, and the house which I have built for your name;
49. then hear their prayer and their supplication in heaven, your dwelling place, and maintain their cause;
50. and forgive your people who have sinned against you, and all their transgressions in which they have transgressed against you; and give them compassion before those who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them
51. (for they are your people, and your inheritance, which you brought out of Egypt, from the middle of the iron furnace);
52. that your eyes may be open to the supplication of your servant, and to the supplication of your people Israel, to listen to them whenever they cry to you.
53. For you separated them from amongst all the peoples of the earth, to be your inheritance, as you spoke by Moses your servant, when you brought our fathers out of Egypt, Lord GOD.”
54. It was so, that when Solomon had finished praying all this prayer and supplication to the Lord, he arose from before the Lord’s altar, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread out towards heaven.