1 Kings 8:41-53

Even for the foreigner who is not of your people Israel but has come from a distant land  because of your name — for they will hear of your great name, strong hand,  and outstretched arm, and will come  and pray toward this temple — may you hear in heaven, your dwelling place, and do according to all the foreigner asks. Then all peoples of earth will know  your name, to fear you as your people Israel do and to know that this temple I have built bears your name. When your people go out to fight against their enemies,  wherever you send them, and they pray to the Lord in the direction of the city you have chosen  and the temple I have built for your name, may you hear their prayer and petition in heaven and uphold their cause.  When they sin against you — for there is no one who does not sin   — and you are angry with them and hand them over to the enemy, and their captors deport them to the enemy’s country   — whether distant or nearby — and when they come to their senses  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,”  and when they return to you with all their heart and all their soul in the land of their enemies who took them captive,  and when they pray to you in the direction of their land that you gave their ancestors, the city you have chosen,  and the temple I have built for your name, may you hear in heaven, your dwelling place, their prayer and petition and uphold their cause. May you forgive your people who sinned against you and all their rebellions  against you, and may you grant them compassion before their captors, so that they may treat them compassionately.  For they are your people and your inheritance;  you brought them out of Egypt, out of the middle of an iron furnace.  May your eyes be open to your servant’s petition and to the petition of your people Israel, listening to them whenever they call to you. For you, Lord God, have set them apart as your inheritance from all peoples of the earth, as you spoke through your servant Moses when you brought our ancestors out of Egypt.