1Kings:8:33-48
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When thy people Israel be smitten down before the enemy ,
because they have sinned against thee ,
and shall turn again to thee ,
and confess thy name ,
and pray ,
and make supplication unto thee in this house :
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Then hear thou in heaven ,
and forgive the sin of thy people Israel ,
and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest unto their fathers .
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When heaven is shut up ,
and there is no rain ,
because they have sinned against thee ;
if they pray toward this place ,
and confess thy name ,
and turn from their sin ,
when thou afflictest them :
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Then hear thou in heaven ,
and forgive the sin of thy servants ,
and of thy people Israel ,
that thou teach them the good way wherein they should walk ,
and give rain upon thy land ,
which thou hast given to thy people for an inheritance .
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If there be in the land famine ,
if there be pestilence ,
blasting ,
mildew ,
locust ,
or if there be caterpiller ;
if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities ;
whatsoever plague ,
whatsoever sickness there be ;
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What prayer and supplication soever be made by any man ,
or by all thy people Israel ,
which shall know every man the plague of his own heart ,
and spread forth his hands toward this house :
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Then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place ,
and forgive ,
and do ,
and give to every man according to his ways ,
whose heart thou knowest ; (
for thou ,
even thou only ,
knowest the hearts of all the children of men ;)
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That they may fear thee all the days that they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers .
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Moreover concerning a stranger ,
that is not of thy people Israel ,
but cometh out of a far country for thy name '
s sake ;
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For they shall hear of thy great name ,
and of thy strong hand ,
and of thy stretched out arm ;)
when he shall come and pray toward this house ;
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Hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place ,
and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for :
that all people of the earth may know thy name ,
to fear thee ,
as do thy people Israel ;
and that they may know that this house ,
which I have builded ,
is called by thy name .
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If thy people go out to battle against their enemy ,
whithersoever thou shalt send them ,
and shall pray unto the LORD toward the city which thou hast chosen ,
and toward the house that I have built for thy name :
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Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication ,
and maintain their cause .
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If they sin against thee , (
for there is no man that sinneth not ,)
and thou be angry with them ,
and deliver them to the enemy ,
so that they carry them away captives unto the land of the enemy ,
far or near ;
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Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives ,
and repent ,
and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captives ,
saying ,
We have sinned ,
and have done perversely ,
we have committed wickedness ;
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And so return unto thee with all their heart ,
and with all their soul ,
in the land of their enemies ,
which led them away captive ,
and pray unto thee toward their land ,
which thou gavest unto their fathers ,
the city which thou hast chosen ,
and the house which I have built for thy name :