²² If a man sins against his neighbor, and his neighbor places him under an oath, and the oath is presented before your altar in this house, ²³ then hear from heaven and take action. Provide justice for your servants by repaying the guilty person and bringing his ways down on his own head, and by declaring the righteous person innocent and dealing with him according to his righteousness.

²⁴ If your people Israel are defeated by their enemies because they sinned against you, and they return to you and praise your Name and pray and seek your favor in this house, ²⁵ then hear in heaven and forgive the sin of your people Israel and bring them back to the land which you gave to them and to their fathers.

²⁶ When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain because they sinned against you, and then they pray toward this place, praise your Name, and turn from their sin because you have humbled them, ²⁷ then hear from heaven and forgive the sin of your servants and your people Israel, for you teach them the good way in which they are to walk. Provide rain upon our land, which you have given to your people as an inheritance.

²⁸ When there is famine in the land, when there is plague, when there is blight or mildew, or locusts or grasshoppers, or when their enemies are in the land besieging their gates, or when any disease or any sickness is present, ²⁹ hear every prayer and every plea for mercy from each individual and from your whole people Israel, because each person knows his own affliction and his own sorrow. When he stretches out his hands toward this house, ³⁰ then hear from heaven, your dwelling place. Forgive and give to each man according to his ways,^[b] since you know his heart. You alone know the heart of everyone, ³¹ so that they fear you and walk in your ways all the days they live on the soil that you gave to our fathers.

³² Also for the foreigner, who is not one of your people Israel, but who comes from a distant land because of your great Name, your mighty hand, and your outstretched arm, and who comes and prays toward this house, ³³ for that foreigner, hear in heaven, which is your dwelling place, and do everything for which that foreigner cries out to you, so that all the peoples of the earth may know your Name and fear you, just as your people Israel do, because they know that your Name is proclaimed in this house that I have built.

³⁴ When your people go out for battle against their enemies on whatever way you send them, and they pray to you, facing toward this city which you have chosen and toward the house which I have built for your Name, ³⁵ then from heaven hear their prayer and their plea for mercy, and provide justice for them.

³⁶ When they sin against you (for there is no one who does not sin), and you become angry with them, and you give them up to an enemy, and they are taken captive to a land whether far or near, ³⁷ when they come to their senses in the land to which they were carried, and they repent and plead to you for mercy in the land where they were exiled, and they say, “We have sinned. We have been guilty, and we have done evil,” ³⁸ and they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land where they are exiled, and they pray toward their land which you gave to their fathers, and toward the city which you have chosen, and toward the house which I have built for your Name, ³⁹ then from heaven, from your dwelling place, hear their prayer and their plea for mercy and provide justice for them, and forgive your people, who have sinned against you.

⁴⁰ Now please, my God, I ask that your eyes will be open and your ears attentive to prayer offered at this place.

⁴¹ Now arise, Lord God, to enter your resting place—you and the ark of your power. May your priests, Lord God, be clothed with salvation. May your faithful ones rejoice in goodness. ⁴² Lord God, you will not turn away the face of your anointed one. Remember the mercy promised to your servant David.