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every prayer and every supplication made by any man or by all thy people Israel, when anyone knows the plague of his own heart and spreads forth his hands toward this house,
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then thou shalt hear in the heavens, in the habitation of thy dwelling place, and forgive and do and give to each one according to his ways, whose heart thou knowest (for thou,
even thou only, knowest the hearts of all the sons of men),
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that they may fear thee all the days that they live in the land which thou didst give unto our fathers.
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Likewise concerning a stranger, that
is not of thy people Israel, but comes out of a far country for thy name’s sake
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(for they shall have heard of thy great name and of thy strong hand and of thy stretched out arm), when he shall come to pray in this house,
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thou shalt hear in the heavens, in the habitation of thy dwelling place, and do according to all that for which the stranger shall have called unto thee, that all peoples of the earth may know thy name and fear thee as
do thy people Israel and that they may know that thy name is invoked upon this house, which I have built.
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If thy people go out to battle against their enemies by the way which thou shalt send them and shall pray unto the LORD toward the city which thou hast chosen and
toward the house that I have built for thy name,
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thou shalt hear in the heavens their prayer and their supplication and do their judgment.
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If they have sinned against thee (for
there is no man that does not sin) and thou should be angry with them and deliver them to the enemy so that they carry them away captives unto the land of the enemy, far or near,
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and they return unto their heart in the land where they were carried captives and return and make supplication unto thee in the land of those that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned and have done iniquity, we have committed wickedness;
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and
so convert themselves unto thee with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies, who led them away captive and pray unto thee toward their land, which thou didst give unto their fathers,
toward the city which thou hast chosen and the house which I have built for thy name,