²⁸ “If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is blight or mildew, if there are [migratory] locusts or grasshoppers, if their enemies besiege them in the land of their cities, whatever plague or whatever sickness there is, ²⁹ then whatever prayer or request is made by any man or all of Your people Israel, each knowing his own suffering and his own pain, and stretching out his hands toward this house, ³⁰ then hear from heaven, Your dwelling place, and forgive, and render to each ^[a]in accordance with all his ways, whose heart You know; for You alone know the hearts of the sons of men,