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hear from heaven your dwelling place and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to you, in order that all the peoples of the earth may know your name and fear you, as do your people Israel, and that they may know that this house
1that I have built is called by your name.
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"If your people go out to battle against their enemies, by whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to you toward this city that you have chosen and the house that I have built for your name,
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then hear from heaven their prayer and their plea, and maintain their cause.
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"If they sin against you--
2for there is no one who does not sin--and you are angry with them and give them to an enemy, so that they are carried away captive to a land far or near,
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yet if they turn their heart in the land to which they have been carried captive, and repent and plead with you in the land of their captivity, saying, 'We have sinned and have acted perversely and wickedly,'
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if they repent with all their mind and with all their heart in the land of their captivity to which they were carried captive, and pray toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, the city that you have chosen and the house that I have built for your name,
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then hear from heaven your dwelling place their prayer and their pleas, and maintain their cause and forgive your people who have sinned against you.
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Now, O my God,
3let your eyes be open
4and your ears attentive to the prayer of this place.
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"And now arise, O LORD God, and go to your
5resting place, you and the ark of your might. Let your priests, O LORD God, be
6clothed with salvation, and let your saints
7rejoice in your goodness.
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O LORD God,
8do not turn away the face of your anointed one!
9Remember your steadfast love for David your servant."