47. yet if they repent in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to you in the land of those who carried them captive, saying, ‘We have sinned, and have done perversely; we have dealt wickedly;’
48. if they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies, who carried them captive, and pray to you toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, the city which you have chosen, and the house which I have built for your name;
49. then hear their prayer and their supplication in heaven, your dwelling place, and maintain their cause;
50. and forgive your people who have sinned against you, and all their transgressions in which they have transgressed against you; and give them compassion before those who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them
51. (for they are your people, and your inheritance, which you brought out of Egypt, from the middle of the iron furnace);
52. that your eyes may be open to the supplication of your servant, and to the supplication of your people Israel, to listen to them whenever they cry to you.
53. For you separated them from among all the peoples of the earth, to be your inheritance, as you spoke by Moses your servant, when you brought our fathers out of Egypt, Lord GOD.”
54. It was so, that when Solomon had finished praying all this prayer and supplication to the Lord, he arose from before the Lord’s altar, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread out toward heaven.
55. He stood, and blessed all the assembly of Israel with a loud voice, saying,
56. “Blessed be the Lord, who has given rest to his people Israel, according to all that he promised. There has not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by Moses his servant.
57. May the Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers. Let him not leave us or forsake us;
58. that he may incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his ordinances, which he commanded our fathers.
59. Let these my words, with which I have made supplication before the Lord, be near to the Lord our God day and night, that he may maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel, as every day requires;
60. that all the peoples of the earth may know that the Lord himself is God. There is no one else.
61. “Let your heart therefore be perfect with the Lord our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as it is today.”