1 Kings 8:36-38

International Standard Version

³⁶ then hear in heaven and forgive the sin of your servants and of your people Israel. Indeed, teach them the best way to live and send rain on your land that you have given to your people as an inheritance.

³⁷ “If a famine comes to the land, or if plant diseases, mildew, locust, or grasshoppers^[a] appear, or if their enemies attack them in their settlements of the land, no matter what the epidemic or illness is, ³⁸ whatever prayer or request is made, no matter whether it’s made by a single man or by all of your people Israel, each praying out of his own hurting heart and anguish and stretching out his hands toward this Temple,