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Then hear thou from the heavens, and forgive the sin of thy peopleIsrael, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest to them and to their fathers.
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When the heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; yet if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou dost afflict them;
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Then hear thou from heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy peopleIsrael, when thou hast taught them the goodway, wherein they should walk; and sendrain upon thy land, which thou hast given unto thy people for an inheritance.
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If there be dearth in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting, or mildew,locusts, or caterpillers; if their enemiesbesiege them in the cities of their land; whatsoever sore or whatsoever sickness there be:
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Then what prayer or what supplication soever shall be made of any man, or of all thy peopleIsrael, when every one shall know his own sore and his own grief, and shall spread forth his hands in this house:
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Then hear thou from heaven thy dwellingplace, and forgive, and render unto every man according unto all his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou only knowest the hearts of the children of men:)
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Moreover concerning the stranger, which is not of thy peopleIsrael, but is come from a farcountry for thy greatname's sake, and thy mightyhand, and thy stretched outarm; if they come and pray in this house;
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Then hear thou from the heavens, even from thy dwellingplace, and do according to all that the strangercalleth to thee for; that all people of the earth may know thy name, and fear thee, as doth thy peopleIsrael, and may know that this house which I have built is called by thy name.
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If thy people go out to war against their enemies by the way that thou shalt send them, and they pray unto thee toward this city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name;