1 Kings 8:46-53

1 Kings 8:46-53

[46] If they sin  against thee, (for there is no man  that sinneth  not,) and thou be angry  with them, and deliver  them to the enemy,  so that they carry them away  unto  the land  of the enemy,  far  or near;  [47] Yet if they shall bethink  themselves in the land  whither they were carried captives,  and repent,  and make supplication  unto thee in the land  of them that carried them captives,  saying,  We have sinned,  and have done perversely,  we have committed wickedness;  [48] And so return  unto thee with all their heart,  and with all their soul,  in the land  of their enemies,  which led them away captive,  and pray  unto thee toward  their land,  which thou gavest  unto their fathers,  the city  which thou hast chosen,  and the house  which I have built  for thy name:  [49] Then hear  thou their prayer  and their supplication  in heaven  thy dwelling  place,  and maintain  their cause,  [50] And forgive  thy people  that have sinned  against thee, and all their transgressions  wherein they have transgressed  against thee, and give  them compassion  before  them who carried them captive,  that they may have compassion  on them: [51] For they be thy people,  and thine inheritance,  which thou broughtest forth  out of Egypt,  from the midst  of the furnace  of iron:  [52] That thine eyes  may be open  unto the supplication  of thy servant,  and unto the supplication  of thy people  Israel,  to hearken  unto them in all that they call  [53] For thou didst separate  them from among all the people  of the earth,  to be thine inheritance,  as thou spakest  by the hand  of Moses  thy servant,  when thou broughtest  our fathers  out of Egypt,  O Lord