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He said, "O LORD, the God of Israel, there is noGodlike You in heavenabove* or on earthbeneath*, keepingcovenant and showing lovingkindness to Your servants who walkbefore You with all their heart,
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who have kept with Your servant, my fatherDavid, that which You have promised him; indeed, You have spoken with Your mouth and have fulfilled it with Your hand as it is thisday.
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"Now therefore, O LORD, the God of Israel, keep with Your servantDavid my father that which You have promised him, saying, 'You shall not lack a man to sit on the throne of Israel, ifonly your sonstakeheed to their way to walkbefore Me as you have walked.'
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"Yet haveregard to the prayer of Your servant and to his supplication, O LORD my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayerwhich Your servantpraysbefore You today;
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that Your eyes may be opentowardthishousenight and day, toward the place of which You have said, 'My name shall be there,' to listen to the prayerwhich Your servant shall praytowardthisplace.
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"Listen to the supplication of Your servant and of Your peopleIsrael, when they praytowardthisplace; hear in heaven Your dwellingplace; hear and forgive.
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then hear in heaven and act and judge Your servants, condemning the wicked by bringing his way on his own head and justifying the righteous by giving him according to his righteousness.
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"When Your peopleIsrael are defeatedbefore an enemy, because they have sinned against You, if they turn to You again and confess Your name and pray and makesupplication to You in thishouse,
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"When the heavens are shut up and there is norain, because they have sinned against You, and they praytowardthisplace and confess Your name and turn from their sinwhen You afflict them,
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then hear in heaven and forgive the sin of Your servants and of Your peopleIsrael, indeed, teach them the goodway in which they should walk. And sendrain on Your land, which You have given Your people for an inheritance.
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"If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is blight or mildew, locust or grasshopper, if their enemybesieges them in the land of their cities, whateverplague, whateversickness there is,
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whatever*prayer or supplication is made by anyman or by all Your peopleIsrael, eachknowing the affliction of his own heart, and spreading his handstowardthishouse;
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then hear in heaven Your dwellingplace, and forgive and act and render to each according to all his ways, whoseheart You know, for You aloneknow the hearts of all the sons of men,
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hear in heaven Your dwellingplace, and do according to all for which the foreignercalls to You, in order that all the peoples of the earth may know Your name, to fear You, as do Your peopleIsrael, and that they may know that thishousewhich I have built is called by Your name.
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"When Your peoplego out to battleagainst their enemy, by whateverway You shall send them, and they pray to the LORDtoward the citywhich You have chosen and the housewhich I have built for Your name,
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"When they sin against You (for there is nomanwho does not sin ) and You are angry with them and deliver them to an enemy, so that they take them away captive to the land of the enemy, far off ornear;
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if they takethought in the landwhere* they have been takencaptive, and repent and makesupplication to You in the land of those who have taken them captive, saying, 'We have sinned and have committediniquity, we have actedwickedly ';
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if they return to You with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemieswho have taken them captive, and pray to You toward their landwhich You have given to their fathers, the citywhich You have chosen, and the housewhich I have built for Your name;
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and forgive Your peoplewho have sinned against You and all their transgressionswhich they have transgressed against You, and make them objects of compassionbefore those who have taken them captive, that they may havecompassion on them
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that Your eyes may be open to the supplication of Your servant and to the supplication of Your peopleIsrael, to listen to them whenever they call to You.
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"For You have separated them from all the peoples of the earth as Your inheritance, as You spokethroughMoses Your servant, when You brought our fathersforth from Egypt, O LordGOD."