42. because they will hear of your great reputation, your great power, and your outstretched arm. When the immigrant comes and prays toward this temple,
43. then listen from heaven, where you live, and do everything the immigrant asks. Do this so that all the people of the earth may know your reputation and revere you, as your people Israel do, and recognize that this temple I have built bears your name.
44. When your people go to war against their enemies, wherever you may send them, and they pray to the Lord toward the city you have chosen and toward this temple that I have built for your name,
45. then listen from heaven to their prayer and request and do what is right for them.
46. When they sin against you (for there is no one who doesn’t sin) and you become angry with them and hand them over to an enemy who takes them away as prisoners to enemy territory, whether distant or nearby,
47. if they change their heart in whatever land they are held captive, changing their lives and begging for your mercy, saying, "We have sinned, we have done wrong, we have acted wickedly!"
48. and if they return to you with all their heart and all their being in the enemy territory where they’ve been taken captive, and pray to you, toward their land, which you gave their ancestors, toward the city you have chosen, and toward the temple I have built for your name,
49. then listen to their prayer and request from your heavenly dwelling place. Do what is right for them,
50. and forgive your people who have sinned against you. Forgive all their wrong that they have done against you. See to it that those who captured them show them mercy.
51. These are your people and your inheritance. You brought them out of Egypt, from the iron furnace.
52. Open your eyes to your servant’s request and to the request of your people Israel. Hear them whenever they cry out to you.
53. You set them apart from all the earth’s peoples as your own inheritance, Lord, just as you promised through your servant Moses when you brought our ancestors out of Egypt.