2 Chronicles 7:14

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 

Leviticus 26:40-42

26:40 However, when ⁶  they confess their iniquity and their ancestors’ iniquity which they committed by trespassing against me, ⁷  by which they also walked ⁸  in hostility against me ⁹  26:41 (and I myself will walk in hostility against them and bring them into the land of their enemies), and ¹⁰  then their uncircumcised hearts become humbled and they make up for ¹¹  their iniquity, 26:42 I will remember my covenant with Jacob and also my covenant with Isaac and also my covenant with Abraham, ¹²  and I will remember the land.

Deuteronomy 30:2-4

30:2 Then if you and your descendants ¹³  turn to the Lord your God and obey him with your whole mind and being ¹⁴  just as ¹⁵  I am commanding you today, 30:3 the Lord your God will reverse your captivity and have pity on you. He will turn and gather you from all the peoples among whom he ¹⁶  has scattered you. 30:4 Even if your exiles are in the most distant land, ¹⁷  from there the Lord your God will gather you and bring you back.

Deuteronomy 30:1

The Results of Covenant Reaffirmation

30:1 “When you have experienced all these things, both the blessings and the curses ¹⁸  I have set before you, you will reflect upon them ¹⁹  in all the nations where the Lord your God has banished you.

Deuteronomy 8:1

The Lord’s Provision in the Desert

8:1 You must keep carefully all these commandments ²⁰  I am giving ²¹  you today so that you may live, increase in number, ²²  and go in and occupy the land that the Lord promised to your ancestors. ²³ 

Psalms 106:46

106:46 He caused all their conquerors ²⁴ 

to have pity on them.

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.

⁶ tn Heb “And.” Many English versions take this to be a conditional clause (“if…”) though there is no conditional particle (see, e.g., NASB, NIV, NRSV; but see the very different rendering in B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 190). The temporal translation offered here (“when”) takes into account the particle אָז (’az, “then”), which occurs twice in v. 41. The obvious contextual contrast between vv. 39 and 40 is expressed by “however” in the translation.

⁷ tn Heb “in their trespassing which they trespassed in me.” See the note on Lev 5:15, although the term is used in a more technical sense there in relation to the “guilt offering.”

⁸ tn Heb “and also which they walked.”

⁹ tn Heb “with me.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “or then,” although the LXX has “then” and the Syriac “and then.”

¹¹ tn Heb “and then they make up for.” On the verb “make up for” see the note on v. 34 above.

¹² tn Heb “my covenant with Abraham I will remember.” The phrase “I will remember” has not been repeated in the translation for stylistic reasons.

¹³ tn Heb “sons” (so NASB); KJV, ASV, NAB, NIV, NRSV, NLT “children.”

¹⁴ tn Or “heart and soul” (also in vv. 6, 10).

¹⁵ tn Heb “according to all.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

¹⁷ tn Heb “are at the farthest edge of the heavens.” The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heaven(s)” or “sky” depending on the context.

¹⁸ tn Heb “the blessing and the curse.”

¹⁹ tn Heb “and you bring (them) back to your heart.”

²⁰ tn The singular term (מִצְוָה, mitsvah) includes the whole corpus of covenant stipulations, certainly the book of Deuteronomy at least (cf. Deut 5:28; 6:1, 25; 7:11; 11:8, 22; 15:5; 17:20; 19:9; 27:1; 30:11; 31:5). The plural (מִצְוֹת, mitsot) refers to individual stipulations (as in vv. 2, 6).

²¹ tn Heb “commanding” (so NASB). For stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy, “giving” has been used in the translation (likewise in v. 11).

²² tn Heb “multiply” (so KJV, NASB, NLT); NIV, NRSV “increase.”

²³ tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 16, 18).

²⁴ tn Or “captors.”