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Day and night please watch over this Temple where you have said you would be worshiped. Hear the prayer I pray facing this Temple.
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Hear my prayers and the prayers of your people Israel when we pray facing this place. Hear from your home in heaven, and when you hear, forgive us.
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"If someone wrongs another person, he will be brought to the altar in this Temple. If he swears an oath that he is not guilty,
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then hear in heaven. Judge the case, punish the guilty, but declare that the innocent person is not guilty.
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"When your people, the Israelites, sin against you, their enemies will defeat them. But if they come back to you and praise you and pray to you in this Temple,