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Keep your eyes open to this Temple day and night, this place you promised to dignify with your Name. And listen to the prayers that I pray in this place.
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And listen to your people Israel when they 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; judge your servants, making the offender pay for the offense And set the offended free, dismissing all 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 to them and 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 quit their sins because you have scourged them,
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Listen 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 as inheritance to your people.
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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, their hearts penetrated by disaster, hands and arms thrown out for help to this Temple,
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Listen from your home in heaven, forgive and reward us: reward each life and circumstance, For you know each life from the inside, (you're the only one with such inside knowledge!),