26 “When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain(A) because your people have sinned against you, and when they pray toward this place and give praise to your name and turn from their sin because you have afflicted them, 27 then hear from heaven and forgive(B) the sin of your servants, your people Israel. Teach them the right way to live, and send rain on the land you gave your people for an inheritance.

28 “When famine(C) or plague comes to the land, or blight or mildew, locusts or grasshoppers, or when enemies besiege them in any of their cities, whatever disaster or disease may come,

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26 (A)“When heaven is shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against you, if they pray toward this place and acknowledge your name and turn from their sin, when you afflict[a] them, 27 (B)then hear in heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel, when you teach them the good way[b] in which they should walk, and grant rain upon your land, which you have given to your people as an inheritance.

28 (C)“If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence or blight or mildew or locust or caterpillar, if their enemies besiege them in the land at their gates, whatever plague, whatever sickness there is,

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 6:26 Septuagint, Vulgate; Hebrew answer
  2. 2 Chronicles 6:27 Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate (compare 1 Kings 8:36); Hebrew toward the good way

26 Als de hemel is gesloten en het niet regent omdat wij hebben gezondigd en wij naar deze tempel gericht bidden, U onze God noemen en wij ons bekeren van onze zonden nadat U ons hebt gestraft, 27 luister dan vanuit de hemel en vergeef de zonden van uw dienaren, uw volk Israël, en wijs ons de juiste levensweg. Stuur dan weer regen naar dit land, dat U aan uw volk als eigendom hebt gegeven.

28 Als hongersnood heerst in uw land of de pest, er misoogsten zijn of het land te lijden heeft van sprinkhanen of andere insecten, als de vijanden van uw volk het land zijn binnengevallen en de steden belegeren of als er andere plagen of ziektes zijn,

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