Whatever prayer and request be made by any man, or by all your people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:
If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blight, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpiller; if their enemy besieges them in the land of their cities; whatever plague, whatever sickness there be;
Then hear thou in heaven your dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and give to every man according to his ways, whose heart you know; (for you, even you only, know the hearts of all the children of men;)
Then whatever prayer or supplication shall be made by any man, or by all your people Israel, when every one shall know his own sore and his own grief, and shall spread forth his hands in this house:
Why are you cast down, O my soul? and why are you disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
And Moses said to him, As soon as I am gone out of the city, I will spread out my hands to the LORD; and the thunder shall cease, neither shall there be any more hail; that you may know that the earth is the LORD’S.
It may be that the LORD your God will hear the words of Rab-shakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to reproach the living God, and will reprove the words which the LORD your God has heard: therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.
Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare your people, O LORD, and give not your heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: why should they say among the people, Where is their God?
And if a leprosy breaks out abroad in the skin, and the leprosy covers all the skin of him that has the plague from his head even to his foot, wherever the priest looks;