2 Chronicles 6:37

³⁵ Then hear thou from the heavens their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.

³⁶ If they sin against thee, (for there is no man which sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them over before their enemies, and they carry them away captives unto a land far off or near;

Yet if they bethink themselves in the land whither they are carried captive, and turn and pray unto thee in the land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have done amiss, and have dealt wickedly;

³⁸ If they return to thee with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, whither they have carried them captives, and pray toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, and toward the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house which I have built for thy name:

³⁹ 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.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: and when they come to their senses in the land to which they were taken, and they repent and plead with You in the land of their captors, saying, ‘We have sinned and done wrong; we have acted wickedly,’
KJV: Yet if they bethink themselves in the land whither they are carried captive, and turn and pray unto thee in the land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have done amiss, and have dealt wickedly;
WEB: yet if they come to their senses in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to you in the land of their captivity, saying, ‘We have sinned, we have done perversely, and have dealt wickedly;’
ASV: yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication unto thee in the land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have done perversely, and have dealt wickedly;
DARBY: and if they shall take it to heart in the land whither they were carried captive, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have done iniquity and have dealt perversely;
BLB: and they come to themselves in the land where they were carried captive there, and they turn and make supplication to You in the land of their captivity, saying, ‘We have sinned, we have done wrong, and have committed wickedness,’

ÅB: men de så tar seg det til hjerte i det land hvor de holdes fanget, og omvender seg og bønnfaller deg om nåde i sitt fangenskaps land og sier: Vi har syndet, vi har gjort ille og vært ugudelige,
OTB: hvis de tar det til hjertet i landet der de blir tatt til fange, og omvender seg og ber til Deg i fangenskapens land, og sier, 'Vi har syndet, vi har gjort urett og handlet ondt';
B1930: men de så tar sig det til hjerte i det land hvor de holdes fanget, og omvender sig og bønnfaller dig om nåde i sitt fangenskaps land og sier: Vi har syndet, vi har gjort ille og vært ugudelige,

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Luke 15:17–19
And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!
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Jeremiah 31:18–20
I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the LORD my God.
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Isaiah 64:6–12
But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
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Daniel 9:5–11
We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments:
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Job 33:27–28
He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;
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Ezra 9:6–7
And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens.
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Deuteronomy 4:29–30
But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.
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Nehemiah 9:26–30
Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.
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