2 Chronicles 6:27-31

The Message

^26-27When the skies shrivel up and there is no rain because your people have sinned against you, but then they pray at this place, acknowledging your rule and quit their sins because you have scourged them,

    Listen from your home in heaven,
        forgive the sins of your servants, your people Israel.
    Then start over with them;
        train them to live right and well;
    Send rain on the land
        you gave as inheritance to your people.

^28-31When disasters strike, famine or catastrophe, crop failure or disease, locust or beetle, or when an enemy attacks their defenses—calamity of any sort—any prayer that’s prayed from anyone at all among your people Israel, their hearts penetrated by disaster, hands and arms thrown out for help to this Temple,

    Listen from your home in heaven, forgive and reward us:
        reward each life and circumstance,
    For you know each life from the inside,
        (you’re the only one with such inside knowledge!),
    So they’ll live before you in lifelong reverence and believing
        obedience on this land you gave our ancestors.