³³ “When your people Israel have been defeated^(A) by an enemy because they have sinned^(B) against you, and when they turn back to you and give praise to your name, praying and making supplication to you in this temple,^(C)

³⁵ “When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain^(A) because your people have sinned^(B) against you, and when they pray toward this place and give praise to your name and turn from their sin because you have afflicted them,

⁴⁷ and if they have a change of heart in the land where they are held captive, and repent and plead^(A) with you in the land of their captors and say, ‘We have sinned, we have done wrong, we have acted wickedly’;^{(B) 48} and if they turn back^(C) to you with all their heart^(D) and soul in the land of their enemies who took them captive, and pray^(E) to you toward the land you gave their ancestors, toward the city you have chosen and the temple^(F) I have built for your Name;^{(G) 49} then from heaven, your dwelling place, hear their prayer and their plea, and uphold their cause. ⁵⁰ And forgive your people, who have sinned against you; forgive all the offenses they have committed against you, and cause their captors to show them mercy;^{(H) 51} for they are your people and your inheritance,^(I) whom you brought out of Egypt, out of that iron-smelting furnace.^(J)

⁵² “May your eyes be open^(K) to your servant’s plea and to the plea of your people Israel, and may you listen to them whenever they cry out to you.^{(L) 53} For you singled them out from all the nations of the world to be your own inheritance,^(M) just as you declared through your servant Moses when you, Sovereign Lord, brought our ancestors out of Egypt.”

²⁸ “When famine^(A) or plague comes to the land, or blight or mildew, locusts or grasshoppers, or when enemies besiege them in any of their cities, whatever disaster or disease may come,