21. Hear the petitions of Your servantand Your people Israel,which they pray toward this place.May You hear in Your dwelling place in heaven.May You hear and forgive.
22. If a man sins against his neighborand is forced to take an oath and he comes to take an oathbefore Your altar in this temple,
23. may You hear in heaven and act.May You judge Your servants,condemning the wicked man by bringingwhat he has done on his own headand providing justice for the righteousby rewarding him according to his righteousness.
24. If Your people Israel are defeated before an enemy,because they have sinned against You,and they return to You and praise Your name,and they pray and plead for mercybefore You in this temple,
25. may You hear in heavenand forgive the sin of Your people Israel.May You restore them to the landYou gave them and their ancestors.
26. When the skies are shut and there is no rainbecause they have sinned against You,and they pray toward this placeand praise Your name,and they turn from their sinsbecause You are afflicting them,
27. may You hear in heavenand forgive the sin of Your servantsand Your people Israel,so that You may teach them the good waythey should walk in.May You send rain on Your landthat You gave Your people for an inheritance.
28. When there is famine on the earth,when there is pestilence,when there is blight, mildew, locust, or grasshopper,when their enemies besiege themin the region of their fortified cities, when there is any plague or illness,
29. whatever prayer or petitionanyone from your people Israel might have —each man knowing his own affliction and suffering,and spreading out his hands toward this temple —
30. may You hear in heaven, Your dwelling place,and may You forgive and repay the manaccording to all his ways, since You know his heart,for You alone know the human heart,
31. so that they may fear Youand walk in Your waysall the days they live on the landYou gave our ancestors.
32. Even for the foreigner who is not of Your people Israelbut has come from a distant landbecause of Your great nameand Your mighty hand and outstretched arm: when he comes and prays toward this temple,
33. may You hear in heaven in Your dwelling place,and do all the foreigner asks You.Then all the peoples of the earth will know Your name,to fear You as Your people Israel doand know that this temple I have builtis called by Your name.
34. When Your people go out to fight against their enemies,wherever You send them,and they pray to Youin the direction of this city You have chosen and the temple that I have built for Your name,
35. may You hear their prayer and petition in heavenand uphold their cause.
36. When they sin against You —for there is no one who does not sin —and You are angry with themand hand them over to the enemy,and their captors deport themto a distant or nearby country,