2 Chronicles 30:9

KJV1611 – Modern English

For if you turn again to the LORD, your brethren and your children shall find compassion before those that lead them captive, so that they shall come again into this land: for the LORD your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away His face from you, if you return to Him.

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    If you return to the LORD, your brothers and your children will be shown compassion by those who took them captive, and they will return to this land. For the LORD your God is gracious and compassionate. He will not turn His face from you if you return to Him.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    For if ye turn again unto the LORD, your brethren and your children shall find compassion before them that lead them captive, so that they shall come again into this land: for the LORD your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if ye return unto him.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    For if ye turn again unto Jehovah, your brethren and your children shall find compassion before them that led them captive, and shall come again into this land: for Jehovah your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if ye return unto him.

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    For if ye turn again unto the LORD, your brethren and your children shall find compassion before them that lead them captive, so that they shall come again into this land: for the LORD your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if ye return unto him.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    For yf ye turne vnto the LORDE, then shal youre brethren and children haue mercy in the sighte of them which holde them in captiuyte, that they maye come agayne in to this londe: for the LORDE youre God is gracious and mercifull, and shal not turne awaye his face from you, yf ye conuerte vnto him.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    For if ye returne vnto the Lord, your brethren and your children shall finde mercy before them that led them captiues, and they shall returne vnto this lande: for the Lord your God is gracious and mercifull, and will not turne away his face from you, if ye conuert vnto him.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    For if ye turne againe vnto the Lorde, then shall your brethren and your children finde compassion in the presence of them that toke them captiue, and they shall come againe vnto this lande: For the Lorde your God is gratious and mercifull, and wyll not turne away his face from you, if ye conuert vnto him.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    For if ye turn again unto the LORD, your brethren and your children [shall find] compassion before them that lead them captive, so that they shall come again into this land: for the LORD your God [is] gracious and merciful, and will not turn away [his] face from you, if ye return unto him.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    For if you turn again to Yahweh, your brothers and your children shall find compassion before those who led them captive, and shall come again into this land: for Yahweh your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if you return to him.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    for in your turning back unto Jehovah, your brethren and your sons have mercies before their captors, even to return to this land, for gracious and merciful `is' Jehovah your God, and He doth not turn aside the face from you, if ye turn back unto Him.'

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    For if ye turn again unto Jehovah, your brethren and your children shall find compassion before them that led them captive, and shall come again into this land: for Jehovah your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if ye return unto him.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    For if ye turn again unto Jehovah, your brethren and your children shall find compassion before them that led them captive, and shall come again into this land: for Jehovah your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if ye return unto him.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    For if you come back to the Lord, those who took away your brothers and your children will have pity on them, and let them come back to this land: for the Lord your God is full of grace and mercy, and his face will not be turned away from you if you come back to him.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    For if you turn again to Yahweh, your brothers and your children shall find compassion before those who led them captive, and shall come again into this land: for Yahweh your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if you return to him."

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    For if you return to the LORD, your brothers and sons will be shown mercy by their captors and return to this land. The LORD your God is merciful and compassionate; he will not reject you if you return to him.”

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 106:46 : 46 He made those who carried them captives to pity them.
  • Mic 7:18 : 18 Who is a God like you, that pardons iniquity, and passes by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in mercy.
  • Exod 34:6-7 : 6 And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, "The LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in goodness and truth," 7 "Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and by no means clearing the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, to the third and the fourth generation."
  • 1 Kgs 8:50 : 50 And forgive your people that have sinned against you, and all their transgressions in which they have transgressed against you, and give them compassion before those who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them:
  • Lev 26:40-42 : 40 If they shall confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary to me; 41 And that I also have walked contrary to them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity: 42 Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land.
  • Deut 30:2-4 : 2 And shall return to the LORD your God, and shall obey his voice according to all that I command you this day, you and your children, with all your heart, and with all your soul; 3 Then the LORD your God will end your captivity, and have compassion upon you, and will return and gather you from all the nations, where the LORD your God has scattered you. 4 If any of yours are driven out to the farthest parts of heaven, from there will the LORD your God gather you, and from there will he bring you:
  • Isa 55:7 : 7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the LORD, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
  • Jer 18:17 : 17 I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will show them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.
  • Jer 29:12-14 : 12 Then you will call upon me, and you will go and pray to me, and I will listen to you. 13 And you will seek me and find me, when you search for me with all your heart. 14 And I will be found by you, says the LORD, and I will restore your fortunes and gather you from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you, says the LORD; and I will bring you back to the place from which I caused you to be carried away captive.
  • Jer 31:27-28 : 27 Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and the seed of beast. 28 And it shall come to pass, that just as I have watched over them, to uproot, to break down, to throw down, and to destroy, and to harm; so will I watch over them, to build and to plant, says the LORD.
  • Ezek 18:30-32 : 30 Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, says the Lord GOD. Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin. 31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby you have transgressed; and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, O house of Israel? 32 For I have no pleasure in the death of him who dies, says the Lord GOD: therefore turn yourselves, and live.
  • Jonah 4:2 : 2 And he prayed to the LORD, and said, I pray you, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was still in my country? Therefore I fled before to Tarshish; for I knew that you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and relent from doing harm.
  • 2 Chr 7:14 : 14 If My people, who are called by My name, shall humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
  • 2 Chr 15:2 : 2 And he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, Listen to me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin; The LORD is with you, while you are with Him; and if you seek Him, He will be found by you; but if you forsake Him, He will forsake you.
  • Neh 9:17 : 17 They refused to obey, and were not mindful of Your wonders that You did among them. But they hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a leader to return to their bondage. But You are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in kindness, and did not forsake them.
  • Neh 9:31 : 31 Nevertheless, in Your great mercies, You did not utterly consume them nor forsake them; for You are a gracious and merciful God.
  • Ps 86:5 : 5 For You, Lord, are good and ready to forgive, and abundant in mercy to all them that call upon You.
  • Ps 86:15 : 15 But You, O Lord, are a God full of compassion and gracious, slow to anger, and plentiful in mercy and truth.
  • Ps 111:4 : 4 He has made his wonderful works to be remembered; the LORD is gracious and full of compassion.
  • Ps 145:7-8 : 7 They shall abundantly express the memory of your great goodness, and shall sing of your righteousness. 8 The LORD is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy.
  • Prov 28:13 : 13 He who covers his sins shall not prosper, but whoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Deut 30:2-4
    3 verses
    82%

    2And shall return to the LORD your God, and shall obey his voice according to all that I command you this day, you and your children, with all your heart, and with all your soul;

    3Then the LORD your God will end your captivity, and have compassion upon you, and will return and gather you from all the nations, where the LORD your God has scattered you.

    4If any of yours are driven out to the farthest parts of heaven, from there will the LORD your God gather you, and from there will he bring you:

  • 12And I will show mercies to you, that he may have mercy upon you, and cause you to return to your own land.

  • Deut 4:30-31
    2 verses
    77%

    30When you are in tribulation, and all these things come upon you, even in the latter days, if you turn to the LORD your God, and be obedient to his voice;

    31(For the LORD your God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake you, neither destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he swore to them.

  • 77%

    37Yet if they come to themselves in the land where they are carried captive, and turn and pray to you in the land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have done wrong, and have dealt wickedly;

    38If they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, where they have been carried captive, and pray toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, and toward the city which you have chosen, and toward the house which I have built for your name:

  • 11Now hear me therefore, and return the captives, whom you have taken captive of your brethren, for the fierce wrath of the LORD is upon you.

  • 76%

    47Yet if they shall come to themselves in the land where they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication to you in the land of those who carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness;

    48And so return to you with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies, who led them away captive, and pray to you toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, the city which you have chosen, and the house which I have built for your name:

  • 19Therefore thus says the LORD, If you return, then I will bring you again, and you shall stand before me: and if you take forth the precious from the vile, you shall be as my mouth: let them return to you; but return not you to them.

  • 8Now do not be stiff-necked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to the LORD, and enter into His sanctuary, which He has sanctified forever: and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness of His wrath may turn away from you.

  • 22Return, you backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come to you; for you are the LORD our God.

  • Joel 2:12-14
    3 verses
    76%

    12Therefore also now, says the LORD, turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.

    13And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn to the LORD your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and he repents of the evil.

    14Who knows if he will turn and repent, and leave a blessing behind him, even a grain offering and a drink offering to the LORD your God?

  • 9But if you turn to Me, and keep My commandments, and do them; though there were of you cast out to the farthest part of the heaven, yet I will gather them from there, and will bring them to the place that I have chosen to set My name there.

  • 6So the couriers went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, You children of Israel, return to the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and He will return to you who are escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria.

  • 12Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, backsliding Israel, says the LORD; and I will not cause my anger to fall upon you: for I am merciful, says the LORD, and I will not keep anger forever.

  • 5They said, 'Turn now every one from his evil way and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the LORD has given to you and to your fathers forever and ever:

  • 1If you will return, O Israel, says the LORD, return to me: and if you will put away your abominations out of my sight, then you shall not be moved.

  • 3Therefore say to them, Thus says the LORD of hosts: Turn to Me, says the LORD of hosts, and I will turn to you, says the LORD of hosts.

  • 14And I will be found by you, says the LORD, and I will restore your fortunes and gather you from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you, says the LORD; and I will bring you back to the place from which I caused you to be carried away captive.

  • Neh 9:31-32
    2 verses
    74%

    31Nevertheless, in Your great mercies, You did not utterly consume them nor forsake them; for You are a gracious and merciful God.

    32Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps covenant and mercy, do not let all the hardship seem little before You that has come upon us, our kings, our princes, our priests, our prophets, our forefathers, and all Your people, from the days of the kings of Assyria until this day.

  • 10If you shall listen to the voice of the LORD your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, and if you turn to the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul.

  • 6Turn to Him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted.

  • 3For behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, that I will bring back the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, says the LORD, and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.

  • 21Turn us back to You, O LORD, and we shall be restored; renew our days as of old.

  • 8And you shall return and obey the voice of the LORD, and do all his commandments which I command you this day.

  • 6And I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph. I will bring them back, for I have mercy on them, and they shall be as though I had not cast them off. For I am the LORD their God, and will hear them.

  • 15For if you turn away from following him, he will again leave them in the wilderness, and you will have destroyed all this people.

  • 50And forgive your people that have sinned against you, and all their transgressions in which they have transgressed against you, and give them compassion before those who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them:

  • 14Turn, O backsliding children, says the LORD; for I am married to you: and I will take you, one from a city, and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion:

  • 28But after they had rest, they did evil again before You; therefore You abandoned them in the hand of their enemies, so that they had dominion over them. Yet when they returned and cried out to You, You heard from heaven, and many times delivered them according to Your mercies.

  • 1O Israel, return to the LORD your God; for you have fallen by your iniquity.

  • 7It may be they will present their supplication before the LORD, and each will turn from his evil way; for great is the anger and the fury that the LORD has pronounced against this people.

  • 17And there is hope in your future, says the LORD, that your children shall come again to their own border.

  • 15And it shall come to pass, after I have plucked them out, I will return and have compassion on them and will bring them back, each one to his heritage and each one to his land.

  • 6Therefore, turn to your God: keep mercy and justice, and wait on your God continually.

  • 17And there shall cling nothing of the cursed thing to your hand: that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and show you mercy, and have compassion upon you, and multiply you, as he has sworn to your fathers;

  • 17They refused to obey, and were not mindful of Your wonders that You did among them. But they hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a leader to return to their bondage. But You are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in kindness, and did not forsake them.

  • 13Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent you concerning your servants.

  • 7Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the LORD, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

  • 45Then you returned and wept before the LORD; but the LORD would not listen to your voice, nor give ear to you.

  • 13Therefore now amend your ways and your deeds, and obey the voice of the LORD your God; and the LORD will relent of the evil that he has pronounced against you.

  • 25Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Now I will bring back the captives of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and will be jealous for my holy name.

  • 6But if you or your children turn from following Me, and do not keep My commandments and My statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them:

  • 20At that time I will bring you again, even in the time that I gather you: for I will make you a name and a praise among all people of the earth, when I turn back your captivity before your eyes, says the LORD.