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.
54. As soon as Solomon finished praying and making these requests to the Lord, he got up from before the Lord’s altar, where he had been kneeling with his hands spread out to heaven.
55. He stood up and blessed the whole Israelite assembly in a loud voice:
56. "May the Lord be blessed! He has given rest to his people Israel just as he promised. He hasn’t neglected any part of the good promise he made through his servant Moses.
57. May the Lord our God be with us, just as he was with our ancestors. May he never leave us or abandon us.
58. May he draw our hearts to him to walk in all his ways and observe his commands, his laws, and his judgments that he gave our ancestors.
59. And may these words of mine that I have cried out before the Lord remain near to the Lord our God day and night so that he may do right by his servant and his people Israel for each day’s need,
60. and so that all the earth’s peoples may know that the Lord is God. There is no other God!
61. Now may you be committed to the Lord our God with all your heart by following his laws and observing his commands, just as you are doing right now."