^8:39then listen from your heavenly dwelling place, forgive their sin,⁶⁷ and act favorably toward each one based on your evaluation of his motives.⁶⁸ (Indeed you are the only one who can correctly evaluate the motives of all people.)⁶⁹^8:40Then they will obey⁷⁰ you throughout their lifetimes as⁷¹ they live on the land you gave to our ancestors.

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Footnotes

67 The words “their sin” are added for clarification.
68 Heb “and act and give to each one according to all his ways because you know his heart.” In the Hebrew text vv. 37–39a actually contain one lengthy conditional sentence, which the translation has divided up for stylistic reasons.
69 Heb “Indeed you know, you alone, the heart of all the sons of mankind.”
70 Heb “fear.”
71 Heb “all the days [in] which.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

then hear in heaven your dwelling place and forgive and act and render to each whose heart you know, according to all his ways (for you, you only, know the hearts of all the children of mankind), that they may fear you all the days that they live in the land that you gave to our fathers.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

then hear from heaven, your dwelling place. Forgive and act; deal with everyone according to all they do, since you know their hearts (for you alone know every human heart), so that they will fear you all the time they live in the land you gave our ancestors.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

may you hear in heaven, your dwelling place,

and may you forgive, act, and give to everyone

according to all their ways, since you know each heart,

for you alone know every human heart,

so that they may fear you

all the days they live on the land

you gave our ancestors.

NLTNew Living Translation

then hear from heaven where you live, and forgive. Give your people what their actions deserve, for you alone know each human heart. Then they will fear you as long as they live in the land you gave to our ancestors.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

then you shall hear in heaven the place of your dwelling, and you shall forgive and act and give to the man whose heart you know, according to all his ways, for you alone know the heart of all the sons of man. Do these things so that they may fear you all the days that they live on the face of the land that you gave to our ancestors.

KJV 1900King James Version

Then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and give to every man according to his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou, even thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men;) That they may fear thee all the days that they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.

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