40. Do these things so that they may fear you all the days that they live on the face of the land that you gave to our ancestors.
41. Also for the foreigner who is not from your people Israel, and he comes from a distant land because of your name,
42. (for they shall hear of your great name and your powerful hand and your outstretched arm), and he shall come and pray toward this house,
43. you shall hear in heaven, the place of your dwelling, and act according to all that the foreigner calls to you, so that all the peoples of the earth may know your name, to fear you as your people Israel, and to know that your name has been invoked over this house that I have built.
44. If your people go out to battle against his enemy in the way that you shall send them and they pray to Yahweh, toward the city which you have chosen and the house which I have built for your name,
45. then you shall hear in heaven their prayer and their plea, and you shall vindicate them.
46. “If they sin against you (for there is not a person who does not sin) and you are angry with them and you give them to an enemy and they take them captive to the land of the enemy far or near,
47. and then they return their heart in the land where they have been taken captive and they return and plead to you in the land of their captivity, saying, ‘We have sinned and we did wrong. We acted wickedly,’