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if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, pray, seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
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Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayer that is made in this place.
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For now I have chosen and consecrated this house so that my name may be there forever; my eyes and my heart will be there for all time.
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As for you, if you walk before me, as your father David walked, doing according to all that I have commanded you and keeping my statutes and my ordinances,
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then I will establish your royal throne, as I made covenant with your father David saying, "You shall never lack a successor to rule over Israel.'
New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.