2 Chronicles 7:14

if my people, who belong to me, ¹  humble themselves, pray, seek to please me, ²  and repudiate their sinful practices, ³  then I will respond ⁴  from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land. ⁵ 

Le 26:40,41; De 4:29,30; De 30:1-6; 2Ch 6:27,30,39; 2Ch 6:37-39; 2Ch 33:12,13,18,19; Ps 60:2; Pr 28:13; Isa 45:19; Isa 55:6,7; Isa 59:20; Isa 63:19; Jer 8:22; Jer 33:6; Jer 51:9; La 3:40,41; Eze 18:27-30; Eze 33:11; Ac 9:11; Jas 4:9,10

¹ tn Heb “over whom my name is called.” The Hebrew idiom “call the name over” indicates ownership. See 2 Sam 12:28.

² tn Heb “seek my face,” where “my face” is figurative for God’s presence and acceptance.

³ tn Heb “and turn from their sinful ways.”

⁴ tn Heb “hear.”

⁵ sn Here the phrase heal their land means restore the damage done by the drought, locusts and plague mentioned in v. 13.