32 Even for the foreigner who  is not  of Your  people  Israel but has come from a distant  land because of Your  great  name and Your mighty hand and  outstretched  arm:  when he comes and  prays toward  this  temple,

33 may You hear in  heaven in  Your dwelling  place, and do all  the  foreigner asks  You. Then all the peoples of the  earth will know Your  name, to fear You as Your  people Israel do and know that this  temple I have built is called by Your  name. 

34 When Your people go out to  fight  against their  enemies, wherever You send  them, and they pray to  You in the direction of this  city You have chosen  and the temple that I have built for  Your  name,

35 may You hear their prayer and  petition in  heaven and uphold their  cause.

36 When they sin against  You — for there is no  one who  does not  sin  — and You are angry with  them and hand them over to  the enemy, and their captors deport  them to a distant or  nearby  country,

37 and when they come to  their  senses in the land where they were deported and repent and petition You in  their  captors’  land, saying: “We have sinned and done wrong; we have been wicked,”

38 and when they return to You with  their  whole  mind and  heart in the land of their  captivity where  they  were taken captive, and when they pray in the direction of their  land that You gave their  ancestors, and the city You have chosen, and toward the  temple I have built for  Your  name,

39 may You hear their  prayer and  petitions in  heaven, Your dwelling  place, and  uphold their  cause.  May You forgive Your  people who sinned against  You.

40 Now, my God, please let Your  eyes be  open and Your ears attentive to the prayer of this  place. 

41 Now therefore:  Arise, LORD God, come to  Your  resting place, You and Your powerful ark. May Your priests, LORD  God, be clothed with salvation, and may Your  godly  people rejoice in  goodness.

42 LORD God, do not  reject Your  anointed one;  remember the loyalty of Your  servant  David. 

2 Chronicles 6:32-42, HCSB with Strong's. Copyright © 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2009 by Holman Bible Publishers.
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