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Keep your eyes open to this Temple night and day, this place of which you said, "My Name will be honored there,"
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and listen to the prayers that I pray at this place. Listen from your home in heaven and when you hear, forgive.
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When someone hurts a neighbor and promises to make things right, and then comes and repeats the promise before your Altar in this Temple,
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listen from heaven and act accordingly: Judge your servants, making the offender pay for his offense and setting the offended free of any charges.
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When your people Israel are beaten by an enemy because they've sinned against you, but then turn to you and acknowledge your rule in prayers desperate and devout in this Temple,
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Listen from your home in heaven, forgive the sin of your people Israel, return them to the land you gave their ancestors.
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When the skies shrivel up and there is no rain because your people have sinned against you, but then they pray at this place, acknowledging your rule and quitting their sins because you have scourged them,
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isten from your home in heaven, forgive the sins of your servants, your people Israel. Then start over with them: Train them to live right and well; send rain on the land you gave your people as an inheritance.
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When disasters strike, famine or catastrophe, crop failure or disease, locust or beetle, or when an enemy attacks their defenses - calamity of any sort
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- any prayer that's prayed from anyone at all among your people Israel, hearts penetrated by the disaster, hands and arms thrown out to this Temple for help,
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Listen from your home in heaven.