46. “Your people will sin against you. I know this because everyone sins. And you will be angry with your people. You will let their enemies defeat them. Their enemies will make them prisoners and carry them to some faraway land.
47. In that faraway land, your people will think about what happened. They will be sorry for their sins, and they will pray to you. They will say, ‘We have sinned and done wrong.’
48. They will be in that faraway land of their enemies, but they will turn back to you. They will feel sorry for their sins with their whole heart and soul. They will turn toward the land you gave their ancestors. They will look toward the city you chose and toward the Temple I built, and they will pray to you.
49. Please listen to their prayers from your home in heaven, and do what is right.
50. Forgive your sinful people for all the things they have done against you. Make their enemies be kind to them.
51. Remember that they are your people and that you brought them out of Egypt. It was as if you saved them by pulling them out of a hot oven!
52. “Please listen to my prayers and to the prayers of your people Israel. Listen to their prayers any time that they ask you for help.
53. You have chosen them from all the peoples of the earth to be your own special people. Lord GOD, you promised to do that for us. You used your servant Moses to make that promise when you brought our ancestors out of Egypt.”