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,

"When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among my people,

"If I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among My people,

At times I might shut up the heavens so that no rain falls, or I might command locusts to devour your crops, or I might send plagues among you.

If I ever shut off the supply of rain from the skies or order the locusts to eat the crops or send a plague on my people,

If, at my word, heaven is shut up, so that there is no rain, or if I send locusts on the land for its destruction, or if I send disease on my people;

When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command the locust to devour the land, or send pestilence among my people,

"When I shut up heaven and there is no rain, or command the locusts to devour the land, or send pestilence among My people,

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,

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.