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When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command the locust to devour the land, or send pestilence among my people,
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if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and 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 that my name may be there for ever; my eyes and my heart will be there for all time.
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And as for you, if you walk before me, as David your father walked, doing according to all that I have commanded you and keeping my statutes and my ordinances,
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the 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.