“I have heard your prayer and have chosen^(D) this place for myself^(E) as a temple for sacrifices.

¹³ “When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain,^(F) or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among my people, ¹⁴ if my people, who are called by my name,^(G) will humble^(H) themselves and pray and seek my face^(I) and turn^(J) from their wicked ways, then I will hear^(K) from heaven, and I will forgive^(L) their sin and will heal^(M) their land.

¹⁹ “But if you^[a] turn away^(A) and forsake^(B) the decrees and commands I have given you^[b] and go off to serve other gods and worship them, ²⁰ then I will uproot^(C) Israel from my land,^(D) which I have given them, and will reject this temple I have consecrated for my Name. I will make it a byword and an object of ridicule^(E) among all peoples. ²¹ This temple will become a heap of rubble. All^[c] who pass by will be appalled^(F) and say,^(G) ‘Why has the Lord done such a thing to this land and to this temple?’ ²² People will answer, ‘Because they have forsaken the Lord, the God of their ancestors, who brought them out of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, worshiping and serving them^(H)—that is why he brought all this disaster on them.’”