⁴⁴ When your people go out to fight against their enemies,^[a]
wherever you send them,
and they pray to the Lord
in the direction of the city you have chosen^(A)
and the temple I have built for your name,
⁴⁵ may you hear their prayer and petition in heaven
and uphold their cause.^(B)
46 When they sin against you—
for there is no one who does not sin^(C)—
and you are angry with them
and hand them over to the enemy,
and their captors deport them to the enemy’s country^(D)—
whether distant or nearby—
⁴⁷ and when they come to their senses^[b]
in the land where they were deported
and repent and petition you in their captors’ land:
“We have sinned and done wrong;
we have been wicked,”^(E)
48 and when they return to you with all their heart and all their soul
in the land of their enemies who took them captive,^(F)
and when they pray to you in the direction of their land
that you gave their ancestors,
the city you have chosen,^(G)
and the temple I have built for your name,
⁴⁹ may you hear in heaven, your dwelling place,
their prayer and petition and uphold their cause.

⁴ And I said, “I have been banished^(A)
from your sight,^(B)
yet I will look^[a] once more
toward your holy temple.”^(C)