“if they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies who carried them captive, and pray to you toward their land which you gave to their fathers, the city which you have chosen and the house which I have built for your name,”

Reading this verse in context

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Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.