2 Chronicles 6:39 “then may You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place, their prayer and p…”

2 Chronicles 6:39

then may You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place, their prayer and pleas, and may You uphold their cause. May You forgive Your people who sinned against You.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Then hear thou from the heavens, even from thy dwelling place, their prayer and their supplications, and maintain their cause, and forgive thy people which have sinned against thee.

World English Bible

then hear from heaven, even from your dwelling place, their prayer and their petitions, and maintain their cause, and forgive your people who have sinned against you.

American Standard Version

then hear thou from heaven, even from thy dwelling-place, their prayer and their supplications, and maintain their cause, and forgive thy people who have sinned against thee.

Geneva Bible 1599

Then heare thou in heauen, in the place of thine habitation their prayer and their supplication, and iudge their cause, and be mercifull vnto thy people, which haue sinned against thee.

Darby Translation

then hear thou from the heavens, from the settled place of thy dwelling, their prayer and their supplications, and maintain their right, and forgive thy people their sin against thee.

Young's Literal Translation

then Thou hast heard from the heavens, from the settled place of Thy dwelling, their prayer and their supplications, and hast maintained their cause, and forgiven Thy people who have sinned against Thee.

Bible in Basic English

Then give ear from heaven your living-place to their prayer and their cry, and see right done to them, answering with forgiveness your people who have done wrong against you.

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Cross references

“cause”

2 Chronicles 6:35 Zechariah 1:15 Zechariah 1:16

2 Chronicles 6:35 · BSB

then may You hear from heaven their prayer and their plea, and may You uphold their cause.

Zechariah 1:15 · BSB

but I am fiercely angry with the nations that are at ease. For I was a little angry, but they have added to the calamity. ’

Zechariah 1:16 · BSB

Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘I will return to Jerusalem with mercy, and there My house will be rebuilt, declares the LORD of Hosts, and a measuring line will be stretched out over Jerusalem.’

“forgive”

Psalm 25:18 Micah 7:18–20

Psalm 25:18 · BSB

Consider my affliction and trouble, and take away all my sins.

Micah 7:18–20 · BSB

Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance— who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

38and when they return to You with all their heart and soul in the land of the enemies who took them captive, and when they pray in the direction of the land that You gave to their fathers, the city You have chosen, and the house I have built for Your Name,

40Now, my God, may Your eyes be open and Your ears attentive to the prayer offered in this place.

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