‘If disaster comes upon us, the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we will stand before this house, and before you, for your name is in this house, and cry to you in our distress, and you will hear and save.’
2 Chronicles 6:29 - New Revised Standard Version whatever prayer, whatever plea from any individual or from all your people Israel, all knowing their own suffering and their own sorrows so that they stretch out their hands toward this house; Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 then what prayer or what supplication soever shall be made of any man, or of all thy people Israel, when every one shall know his own sore and his own grief, and shall spread forth his hands in this house: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Then whatever prayer or supplication any man or all of Your people Israel shall make–each knowing his own affliction and his own sorrow and stretching out his hands toward this house– American Standard Version (1901) what prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, who shall know every man his own plague and his own sorrow, and shall spread forth his hands toward this house: Common English Bible whatever prayer or petition is made by any individual or by all of your people Israel—because people will recognize their own pain and suffering and spread out their hands toward this temple— Catholic Public Domain Version if anyone from your people Israel, knowing his own scourge and infirmity, will have made supplication and will have extended his hands in this house, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Then if any of thy people Israel, knowing his own scourge and infirmity, shall pray, and shall spread forth his hands in this house: |
‘If disaster comes upon us, the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we will stand before this house, and before you, for your name is in this house, and cry to you in our distress, and you will hear and save.’
“If there is famine in the land, if there is plague, blight, mildew, locust, or caterpillar; if their enemies besiege them in any of the settlements of the lands; whatever suffering, whatever sickness there is;
may you hear from heaven, your dwelling place, forgive, and render to all whose heart you know, according to all their ways, for only you know the human heart.
Call on me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.”
When they call to me, I will answer them; I will be with them in trouble, I will rescue them and honor them.
When you stretch out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not listen; your hands are full of blood.