⁴⁴“When Your people go out to battle against ¹their enemy, by whatever way You shall send them, and ^athey pray to Yahweh ²toward the city which You have chosen and the house which I have built for Your name,

⁴⁵then listen in heaven to their prayer and their supplication, and do justice.

⁴⁶“When they sin against You (for ^athere is no man who does not sin) and You are angry with them and give them over to an enemy, so that ¹they take them away captive ^bto the land of the enemy, far off or near;

⁴⁷^aand if they cause these things to return to their heart in the land where they have been taken captive, and ¹return and make supplication to You in the land of those who have taken them captive, saying, ‘^bWe have sinned and have committed iniquity, we have acted wickedly’;

⁴⁸^aand if they return to You with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies who have taken them captive, and ^bpray to You toward their land which You have given to their fathers, the city which You have chosen, and the house which I have built for Your name;

⁴⁹then listen in heaven Your dwelling place to their prayer and their supplication, and do justice for them,

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Footnotes

1Lit his
2Lit in the way of
1Lit their captors take them captive
1Or repent

Cross references

a 2 Chr 14:11
a Ps 130:3, 4; 143:2; Prov 20:9; Eccl 7:20; Rom 3:23; 1 John 1:8–10
b Lev 26:34–39; 2 Kin 17:6, 18; 25:21
a Lev 26:40–42; Deut 30:1; Neh 9:2
b Ezra 9:6, 7; Neh 1:6; Ps 106:6; Dan 9:5
a Deut 4:29; 1 Sam 7:3, 4; Neh 1:9
b Dan 6:10; Jon 2:4