2 Chronicles 6:31-33

The Message

^28-31When disasters strike, famine or catastrophe, crop failure or disease, locust or beetle, or when an enemy attacks their defenses—calamity of any sort—any prayer that’s prayed from anyone at all among your people Israel, their hearts penetrated by disaster, hands and arms thrown out for help to this Temple,

    Listen from your home in heaven, forgive and reward us:
        reward each life and circumstance,
    For you know each life from the inside,
        (you’re the only one with such inside knowledge!),
    So they’ll live before you in lifelong reverence and believing
        obedience on this land you gave our ancestors.

³²And don’t forget the foreigner who is not a member of your people Israel but has come from a far country because of your reputation—people are going to be attracted here by your great reputation, your wonderworking power—and who come to pray to this Temple.

³³    Listen from your home in heaven
        and honor the prayers of the foreigner,
    So that people all over the world
        will know who you are and what you’re like,
    And live in reverent obedience before you,
        just as your own people Israel do,
    So they’ll know that you personally
        make this Temple that I’ve built what it is.