When the heavens are shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou dost afflict them:
If whanne heuene is closid, reyn come not doun for þe synne of thi puple, and þei bisechen þee in this place, and knowlechen to thi name, and ben turned fro her synnes, whanne thou hast turmentid hem,