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47 When your people[a] come to their senses[b] in the land where they are held prisoner, they will repent and beg for your mercy in the land of their imprisonment, admitting, ‘We have sinned and gone astray;[c] we have done evil.’

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 8:47 tn Heb “they”; the referent (your people) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
  2. 1 Kings 8:47 tn Or “stop and reflect”; Heb “bring back to their heart.”
  3. 1 Kings 8:47 tn Or “done wrong.”

47 and if they have a change of heart in the land where they are held captive, and repent and plead(A) with you in the land of their captors and say, ‘We have sinned, we have done wrong, we have acted wickedly’;(B)

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