²⁸ When there is famine on the earth,
when there is pestilence,
when there is blight, mildew, locust, or grasshopper,
when their enemies besiege them
in the region of their fortified cities,^[a](A)
when there is any plague or illness,
²⁹ whatever prayer or petition
anyone from your people Israel might have—
each man knowing his own affliction^[b] and suffering,
and spreading out his hands toward this temple—
³⁰ may You hear in heaven, Your dwelling place,
and may You forgive and repay the man
according to all his ways, since You know his heart,
for You alone know the human heart,^(B)