⁴⁴ When Your people go out to fight against their enemies,^[a]
wherever You send them,
and they pray to Yahweh
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 their whole mind and heart
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.

⁷ But I enter Your house
by the abundance of Your faithful love;^(A)
I bow down toward Your holy temple
in reverential awe of You.^(B)