2 Chronicles 7:13

When ¹  I close up the sky ²  so that it doesn’t rain, or command locusts to devour the land’s vegetation, ³  or send a plague among my people,

Ex 10:4-6; Nu 14:12; Nu 16:46,47; De 11:17; 2Sa 24:13-15; 2Ch 6:26-28; Job 11:10; Job 12:14; Ps 105:34; Ps 107:34; Eze 14:19-21; Joe 1:4-7; Joe 2:25; Lu 4:25; Re 3:7; Re 11:6

¹ tn Or “if.”

² tn Or “heavens.” The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heaven(s)” or “sky” depending on the context.

³ tn Heb “the land,” which stands here by metonymy for the vegetation growing in it.