^8:47When your people⁸⁶ come to their senses⁸⁷ in the land where they are held prisoner, they will repent and beg for your mercy in the land of their imprisonment, admitting, ‘We have sinned and gone astray;⁸⁸ we have done evil.’

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Footnotes

86 Heb “they”; the referent (your people) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
87 Or “stop and reflect”; Heb “bring back to their heart.”
88 Or “done wrong.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

yet if they turn their heart in the land to which they have been carried captive, and repent and plead with you in the land of their captors, saying, ‘We have sinned and have acted perversely and wickedly,’

NIVNew International Version (2011)

and if they have a change of heart in the land where they are held captive, and repent and plead with you in the land of their captors and say, ‘We have sinned, we have done wrong, we have acted wickedly’;

CSBChristian Standard Bible

and when they come to their senses

in the land where they were deported

and repent and petition you in their captors’ land:

“We have sinned and done wrong;

we have been wicked,”

NLTNew Living Translation

But in that land of exile, they might turn to you in repentance and pray, ‘We have sinned, done evil, and acted wickedly.’

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

and then they return their heart in the land where they have been taken captive and they return and plead to you in the land of their captivity, saying, ‘We have sinned and we did wrong. We acted wickedly,’

KJV 1900King James Version

Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness;

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