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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.
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so that they'll live before you in lifelong reverent and believing obedience on this land you gave our ancestors.
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And don't forget the foreigner who is not a member of your people Israel but has come from a far country because of your reputation.
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People are going to be attracted here by your great reputation, your wonder-working power, who come to pray at this Temple.
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Listen from your home in heaven. Honor the prayers of the foreigner so that people all over the world will know who you are and what you're like and will live in reverent obedience before you, just as your own people Israel do; so they'll know that you personally make this Temple that I've built what it is.
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When your people go to war against their enemies at the time and place you send them and they pray to God toward the city you chose and this Temple I've built to honor your Name,
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Listen from heaven to what they pray and ask for, and do what's right for them.
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When they sin against you - and they certainly will; there's no one without sin! - and in anger you turn them over to the enemy and they are taken captive to the enemy's land, whether far or near,
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but repent in the country of their captivity and pray with changed hearts in their exile, "We've sinned; we've done wrong; we've been most wicked,"