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ing his wickedness fall upon his own head, and stretched out arm, and adore in this place:
to revenge the just, rewarding him according to 33 Hear thou from heaven thy firm dwelling
his justice. place, and do all that which that stranger shall
24 If thy people Israel be overcome by their call upon thee for: that all the people of the earth
enemies, (for they will sin against thee,) and be- may know thy name, and may fear thee, as thy
ing converted shall do penance, and call upon people Israel, and may know, that thy name is
thy name, and pray to thee in this place, invoked upon this house, which I have built.
25 Then hear thou from heaven, and forgive 34 If thy people go out to war against their en-
the sin of thy people Israel and bring them back emies, by the way that thou shalt send them, and
into the land which thou gavest to them, and adore thee towards the way of this city, which
their fathers. thou hast chosen, and the house which I have
26 If the heavens be shut up, and there fall built to thy name:
no rain by reason of the sin of the people, and 35 Then hear thou from heaven their prayers,
they shall pray to thee in this place, and confess and their supplications, and revenge them.
to thy name, and be converted from their sins, 36 And if they sin against thee (for there is no
where thou dost afflict them, man that sinneth not) and thou be angry with
27 Then hear thou from heaven, O Lord, and them, and deliver them up to their enemies, and
forgive the sins of thy servants and of thy people they lead them away captive to a land either afar
Israel and teach them the good way in which off, or near at hand,
they may walk: and give rain to thy land which 37 And if they be converted in their heart in
thou hast given to thy people to possess. the land to which they were led captive, and do
28 If a famine arise in the land, or a pestilence penance, and pray to thee in the land of their
or blasting, or mildew, or locusts, or caterpillars: captivity saying: We have sinned, we have done
or if their enemies waste the country, and besiege wickedly, we have dealt unjustly:
the cities, whatsoever scourge or infirmity shall 38 And return to thee with all their heart,
be upon them: and with all their soul, in the land of their cap-
29 Then if any of thy people Israel, knowing tivity, to which they were led away, and adore
his own scourge and infirmity shall pray, and thee towards the way of their own land which
shall spread forth his hands in this house, thou gavest their fathers, and of the city, which
30 Hear thou from heaven, from thy high thou hast chosen, and the house which I have
dwelling place, and forgive, and render to every built to thy name:
one according to his ways, which thou knowest 39 Then hear thou from heaven, that is, from
him to have in his heart: for thou only knowest thy firm dwelling place, their prayers, and do
the hearts of the children of men: judgment, and forgive thy people, although they
31 That they may fear thee, and walk in thy have sinned:
ways all the days that they live upon the face of 40 For thou art my God: let thy eyes, I be-
the land, which thou hast given to our fathers. seech thee, be open, and let thy ears be attentive
32 If the stranger also, who is not of thy people to the prayer, that is made in this place.
Israel, come from a far country, for the sake of 41 Now therefore arise, O Lord God, into thy
thy great name, and thy strong hand, and thy resting place, thou and the ark of thy strength: