25. listen from your home in heaven. Forgive them and bring them back to the land you gave their ancestors.
26. Suppose your people sin against you, and you punish them by holding back the rain. If they stop sinning and turn towards this temple to pray in your name,
27. listen from your home in heaven and forgive them. The people of Israel are your servants, so teach them to live right. And send rain on the land you promised them for ever.
28. Sometimes the crops may dry up or rot or be eaten by locusts or grasshoppers, and your people will be starving. Sometimes enemies may surround their towns, or your people will become sick with deadly diseases.
29. Please listen when anyone in Israel truly feels sorry and sincerely prays with arms lifted towards your temple.
30. You know what is in everyone's heart. So from your home in heaven answer their prayers, according to what they do and what is in their hearts.
31. Then your people will worship you and obey you for as long as they live in the land you gave their ancestors.
32. Foreigners will hear about you and your mighty power, and some of them will come to live among your people Israel. If any of them pray towards this temple,
33. listen from your home in heaven and answer their prayers. Then everyone on earth will worship you, just as your own people Israel do, and they will know that I have built this temple in your honour.
34. Sometimes you will order your people to attack their enemies. Then your people will turn towards this temple I have built for you in your chosen city, and they will pray to you.
35. Answer their prayers from heaven and give them victory.
36. Everyone sins. But when your people sin against you, suppose you get angry enough to let their enemies drag them away to foreign countries.