1 Kings 8:44-51

New American Standard Bible 1995

⁴⁴ “When Your people go out to battle against ^[a]their enemy, by whatever way You shall send them, and ^(A)they pray to the Lord ^[b]toward the city which You have chosen and the house which I have built for Your name, ⁴⁵ then hear in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their ^[c]cause.

⁴⁶ “When they sin against You (for ^(B)there is no man who does not sin) and You are angry with them and deliver them to an enemy, so that ^[d]they take them away captive ^(C)to the land of the enemy, far off or near; ^47 (D)if they ^[e]take thought in the land where they have been taken captive, and repent and make supplication to You in the land of those who have taken them captive, saying, ‘^(E)We have sinned and have committed iniquity, we have acted wickedly’; ^48 (F)if they return to You with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies who have taken them captive, and ^(G)pray to You toward their land which You have given 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 ^[f]cause, ⁵⁰ and forgive Your people who have sinned against You and all their transgressions which they have transgressed against You, and ^(H)make them objects of compassion before those who have taken them captive, that they may have compassion on them ⁵¹ (^(I)for they are Your people and Your inheritance which You have brought forth from Egypt, ^(J)from the midst of the iron furnace),