may you hear in heaven and forgive the sin of your people Israel. May you restore them to the land you gave them and their ancestors.
2 Chronicles 6:26 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised When the skies are shut and there is no rain because they have sinned against you, and they pray towards this place and praise your name, and they turn from their sins because you are afflicting , them, Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 When the heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; yet if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou dost afflict them; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain because Your people have sinned against You, yet if they pray toward this place, confess your name [and You Yourself], and turn from their sin when You afflict them, American Standard Version (1901) When the heavens are shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou dost afflict them: Common English Bible When the sky holds back its rain because Israel has sinned against you, but they then pray concerning this place, give thanks to your name, and turn away from their sin because you have punished them for it, Catholic Public Domain Version If the heavens have been closed, so that rain does not fall, because of the sin of the people, and if they will petition you in this place, and confess to your name, and be converted from their sins when you will afflict them, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version If the heavens be shut up, and there fall no rain by reason of the sine of the people, and they shall pray to thee in this place, and confess to thy name, and be converted from their sins, when thou dost afflict them: |
may you hear in heaven and forgive the sin of your people Israel. May you restore them to the land you gave them and their ancestors.
If I shut the sky so there is no rain, or if I command the grasshopper to consume the land, or if I send pestilence on my people,
The one who conceals his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them will find mercy.
I will make it a wasteland. It will not be pruned or weeded; thorns and briars will grow up. I will also give orders to the clouds that rain should not fall on it.
‘Son of man, suppose a land sins against me by acting faithlessly, and I stretch out my hand against it to cut off its supply of bread, to send famine through it, and to wipe out both people and animals from it.
I will depart and return to my place until they recognise their guilt and seek my face; they will search for me in their distress.
I will break down your strong pride. I will make your sky like iron and your land like bronze,
But I say to you, there were certainly many widows in Israel in Elijah’s days, when the sky was shut up for three years and six months while a great famine came over all the land.
Then the Lord’s anger will burn against you. He will shut the sky, and there will be no rain; the land will not yield its produce, and you will perish quickly from the good land the Lord is giving you.
They have authority to close up the sky so that it does not rain during the days of their prophecy. They also have power over the waters to turn them into blood and to strike the earth with every plague whenever they want.