When

When your people Israel have been defeated by an enemy because they have sinned against you. When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain because your people have sinned against you. When famine or plague comes to the land, or blight or mildew, locusts or grasshoppers, or when an enemy besieges them in any of their cities, whatever disaster or disease may come. When a prayer or plea is made by any of your people Israel—each one aware of the afflictions of his own heart, and spreading out his hands toward this temple— then hear from heaven, your dwelling place. Forgive and act; deal with each man according to all he does, since you know his heart (for you alone know the hearts of all men). (1 Kings 8:33, 35, 37–39, NIV 1984).

When they sin against you—for there is no one who does not sin—and you…