50 May You forgive Your people
who sinned against You
and all their rebellions[a] against You,
and may You give them compassion
in the eyes of their captors,
so that they may be compassionate to them.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 8:50 Lit rebellions that they have rebelled

50 And forgive your people, who have sinned against you; forgive all the offenses they have committed against you, and cause their captors to show them mercy;(A)

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50 And forgive thy people that have sinned against thee, and all their transgressions wherein they have transgressed against thee, and give them compassion before them who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them:

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for when you return to Yahweh, your brothers and your sons will receive mercy in the presence of their captors and will return to this land.(A) For Yahweh your God is gracious and merciful;(B) He will not turn His face away from you if you return to Him.”

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If you return(A) to the Lord, then your fellow Israelites and your children will be shown compassion(B) by their captors and will return to this land, for the Lord your God is gracious and compassionate.(C) He will not turn his face from you if you return to him.”

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For if ye turn again unto the Lord, your brethren and your children shall find compassion before them that lead them captive, so that they shall come again into this land: for the Lord your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if ye return unto him.

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Though we are slaves,(A) our God has not abandoned us in our slavery. He has extended grace to us in the presence of the Persian kings,(B) giving us new life, so that we can rebuild the house of our God and repair its ruins,(C) to give us a wall in Judah and Jerusalem.

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Though we are slaves,(A) our God has not forsaken us in our bondage. He has shown us kindness(B) in the sight of the kings of Persia: He has granted us new life to rebuild the house of our God and repair its ruins,(C) and he has given us a wall of protection in Judah and Jerusalem.

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For we were bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.

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