KJV King James Version
If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
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2 Chronicles 7:14
If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
and if My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.
WEB World English Bible
if my people, who are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
ASV American Standard Version
if my people, who are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and My people on whom My name is called be humbled, and pray, and seek My face, and turn back from their evil ways, then I—I hear from the heavens, and forgive their sin, and heal their land.
Surrounding context — 2 Chronicles 7
11 Thus Solomon finished the house of the LORD, and the king’s house: and all that came into Solomon’s heart to make in the house of the LORD, and in his own house, he prosperously effected.
12 And the LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and said unto him, I have heard thy prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for an house of sacrifice.
13 If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;
14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
15 Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent unto the prayer [that is made] in this place.
16 For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that my name may be there for ever: and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.
17 And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded thee, and shalt observe my statutes and my judgments;
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וְיִכָּנְע֨וּH3665 · ka.nabe humbleעַמִּ֜יH5971 · ampeopleאֲשֶׁ֧רH834 · a.sherwhichנִֽקְרָא־H7121 · qa.rato call: call toשְׁמִ֣יH8034 · shemnameעֲלֵיהֶ֗םH5921 · aluponוְיִֽתְפַּֽלְלוּ֙H6419 · pa.lalto prayוִֽיבַקְשׁ֣וּH1245 · ba.qashto seekפָנַ֔יH6440 · pa.nehface: beforeוְיָשֻׁ֖בוּH7725 · shuvto return: returnמִדַּרְכֵיהֶ֣םH1870 · de.rekhway: conductהָרָעִ֑יםH7451 · rabad: harmfulוַאֲנִי֙H589 · a.niIאֶשְׁמַ֣עH8085 · sha.mato hear: hearמִן־H4480 · minfromהַשָּׁמַ֔יִםH8064 · sha.ma.yimheavenוְאֶסְלַח֙H5545 · sa.lachto forgiveלְחַטָּאתָ֔םH2403 · chat.ta.ahsinוְאֶרְפָּ֖אH7495 · ra.pahto healאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]אַרְצָֽם׃H776 · e.retsland: country/planet
Cross-references
Lamentations 3:40-41Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.Isaiah 55:6-7Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:James 4:9-10Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and [your] joy to heaviness.Proverbs 28:13He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh [them] shall have mercy.2 Chronicles 6:37-39Yet [if] they bethink themselves in the land whither they are carried captive, and turn and pray unto thee in the land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have done amiss, and have dealt wickedly;Deuteronomy 4:29-30But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find [him], if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.Jeremiah 33:6Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth.2 Chronicles 33:12-13And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,Ezekiel 33:11Say unto them, [As] I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?2 Chronicles 6:27Then hear thou from heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, when thou hast taught them the good way, wherein they should walk; and send rain upon thy land, which thou hast given unto thy people for an inheritance.Leviticus 26:40-41If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;Ezekiel 18:27-30Again, when the wicked [man] turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.Jeremiah 8:22[Is there] no balm in Gilead; [is there] no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?Isaiah 63:19We are [thine]: thou never barest rule over them; they were not called by thy name.Deuteronomy 30:1-6And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call [them] to mind among all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee,Isaiah 59:20And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD.2 Chronicles 6:30Then hear thou from heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and render unto every man according unto all his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou only knowest the hearts of the children of men:)Isaiah 45:19I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.
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