²⁹ then any prayer, any plea that is made by any person and by all your people Israel, each one who knows his own affliction and his own anguish and who spreads out his hands to this house, ³⁰ then may you yourself hear from the heavens, your dwelling place, and forgive and give to each according to all his ways, since you know the heart of the children of humankind, ³¹ that they may fear you and walk in your ways all the days that they are alive upon the face of the land that you have given to our ancestors.^[a]