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When thy people Israel are defeated before the enemy because they have sinned against thee ,
if they turn again to thee ,
and acknowledge thy name ,
and pray and make supplication to 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 to the land which thou gavest to 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 acknowledge thy name ,
and turn from their sin ,
when thou dost afflict them ,
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then hear thou in heaven ,
and forgive the sin of thy servants ,
thy people Israel ,
when thou dost teach them the good way in which they should walk ;
and grant rain upon thy land ,
which thou hast given to thy people as an inheritance .
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If there is famine in the land ,
if there is pestilence or blight or mildew or locust or caterpillar ;
if their enemy besieges them in any of their cities ;
whatever plague ,
whatever sickness there is ;
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whatever prayer ,
whatever supplication is made by any man or by all thy people Israel ,
each knowing the affliction of his own heart and stretching out his hands toward this house ;
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then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place ,
and forgive ,
and act ,
and render to each whose heart thou knowest ,
according to all his ways (
for thou ,
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 to our fathers .
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Likewise when a foreigner ,
who is not of thy people Israel ,
comes from a far country for thy name '
s sake
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for they shall hear of thy great name ,
and thy mighty hand ,
and of thy outstretched arm ),
when he comes and prays toward this house ,
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hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place ,
and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to thee ;
in order that all the peoples of the earth may know thy name and fear thee ,
as do thy people Israel ,
and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by thy name .
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If thy people go out to battle against their enemy ,
by whatever way thou shalt send them ,
and they pray to the LORD toward the city which thou hast chosen and the house which 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 who does not sin--and thou art angry with them ,
and dost give them to an enemy ,
so that they are carried away captive to the land of the enemy ,
far off or near ;
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yet if they lay it to heart in the land to which they have been carried captive ,
and repent ,
and make supplication to thee in the land of their captors ,
saying , `
We have sinned ,
and have acted perversely and wickedly ';
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if they repent with all their mind and with all their heart in the land of their enemies ,
who carried them captive ,
and pray to thee toward their land ,
which thou gavest to their fathers ,
the city which thou hast chosen ,
and the house which I have built for thy name ;
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then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place their prayer and their supplication ,
and maintain their cause
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and forgive thy people who have sinned against thee ,
and all their transgressions which they have committed against thee ;
and grant them compassion in the sight of those who carried them captive ,
that they may have compassion on them
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for they are thy people ,
and thy heritage ,
which thou didst bring out of Egypt ,
from the midst of the iron furnace ).
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Let thy eyes be open to the supplication of thy servant ,
and to the supplication of thy people Israel ,
giving ear to them whenever they call to thee .
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For thou didst separate them from among all the peoples of the earth ,
to be thy heritage ,
as thou didst declare through Moses ,
thy servant ,
when thou didst bring our fathers out of Egypt ,
O Lord GOD ."