8:37 “The time will come when the land suffers from a famine, a plague, blight and disease, or a locust 1 invasion, or when their enemy lays siege to the cities of the land, 2 or when some other type of plague or epidemic occurs. 8:38 When all your people Israel pray and ask for help, 3 as they acknowledge their pain 4 and spread out their hands toward this temple,
1 tn Actually two Hebrew terms appear here, both of which are usually taken as referring to locusts. Perhaps different stages of growth or different varieties are in view.
2 tn Heb “in the land, his gates.”
3 tn Heb “every prayer, every request for help which will be to all the people, to all your people Israel.”
4 tn Heb “which they know, each the pain of his heart.”