³⁶ then listen from heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel. Certainly^[a] you will then teach them the right way to live^[b] and send rain on your land that you have given your people to possess.^[c]

³⁷ “The time will come when the land suffers from a famine, a plague, blight and disease, or a locust^[d] invasion, or when their enemy lays siege to the cities of the land,^[e] or when some other type of plague or epidemic occurs. ³⁸ When all your people Israel pray and ask for help,^[f] as they acknowledge their pain^[g] and spread out their hands toward this temple,