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Then, O LORD, send rain on this land of yours, which you gave to your people as a permanent possession. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/2_chronicles/6-27.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/2_chronicles/6-27.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/2_chronicles/6-27.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/2_chronicles/1.htm">2 Chronicles</a> > <a href="/gntd/2_chronicles/6.htm">Chapter 6</a> > Verse 27</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../2_chronicles/6-26.htm" title="2 Chronicles 6:26">◄</a> 2 Chronicles 6:27 <a href="../2_chronicles/6-28.htm" title="2 Chronicles 6:28">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/2_chronicles/6.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/2_chronicles/6.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />O LORD, listen to them in heaven and forgive the sins of your servants, the people of Israel, and teach them to do what is right. Then, O LORD, send rain on this land of yours, which you gave to your people as a permanent possession. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/2_chronicles/6.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />may you hear in heaven, forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send down rain upon your land, which you have given to your people as an inheritance.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/2_chronicles/6.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />listen from your home in heaven and forgive them. The people of Israel are your servants, so teach them to live right. And send rain on the land you promised them forever. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/2_chronicles/6.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />listen in heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel. (For you teach them the good way in which they should walk.) Give rain upon this land of yours which you have given to your people as their heritage.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/2_chronicles/6.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Then hear thou from heaven, O Lord, and forgive the sins of thy servants and of thy people Israel and teach them the good way in which they may walk: and give rain to thy land which thou hast given to thy people to possess.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">Then hear thou from heaven, O Lord, and forgive the sins of thy servants and of thy people Israel and teach them the good way in which they may walk: and give rain to thy land which thou hast given to thy people to possess.</p><p class="hdg">when thou hast</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_kings/8-35.htm">1 Kings 8:35,36</a> If heaven shall be shut up, and there shall be no rain, because of their sins, and they, praying in this place, shall do penance to thy name, and shall be converted from their sins, by occasion of their afflictions: . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/25-4.htm">Psalm 25:4,5,8,12</a> Let all them be confounded that act unjust things without cause. Shew, O Lord, thy ways to me, and teach me thy paths. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/94-12.htm">Psalm 94:12</a> Blessed is the man whom thou shalt instruct, O Lord: and shalt teach him out of thy law.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/119-33.htm">Psalm 119:33</a> Set before me for a law the way of thy justifications, O Lord: and I will always seek after it.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../micah/4-2.htm">Micah 4:2</a> And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be prepared in the top of the mountains, and high above the hills: and people shall flow to it.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../john/6-45.htm">John 6:45</a> It is written in the prophets: And they shall all be taught of God. Every one that hath heard of the Father and hath learned cometh forth me.</p><p class="hdg">good way</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/30-21.htm">Isaiah 30:21</a> And thy ears shall hear the word of one admonishing thee behind thy back: This is the way, walk ye in it: and go not aside neither to the right hand, nor to the left.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/6-16.htm">Jeremiah 6:16</a> Thus saith the Lord: Stand ye on the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, which is the good way, and walk ye in it: and you shall find refreshment for your souls. And they said: We will not walk.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/42-3.htm">Jeremiah 42:3</a> And let the Lord thy God shew us the way by which we may walk, and the thing that we must do.</p><p class="hdg">send rain</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_kings/18-40.htm">1 Kings 18:40-45</a> And Elias said to them: Take the prophets of Baal, and let not one of them escape. And when they had taken them, Elias brought them down to the torrent Cison, and killed them there. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../job/37-11.htm">Job 37:11-14</a> Corn desireth clouds, and the clouds spread their light: . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/68-9.htm">Psalm 68:9</a> Thou shalt set aside for thy inheritance a free rain, O God: and it was weakened, but thou hast made it perfect.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/5-24.htm">Jeremiah 5:24</a> And they have not said in their heart: Let us fear the Lord our God, who giveth us the early and the latter rain in due season: who preserveth for us the fulness of the yearly harvest.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/14-22.htm">Jeremiah 14:22</a> Are there any among the graven things of the Gentiles that can send rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou the Lord our God, whom we have looked for? for thou hast made all these things.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ezekiel/34-26.htm">Ezekiel 34:26</a> And I will make them a blessing round about my hill: and I will send down the rain in its season, there shall be showers of blessing.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../hosea/2-21.htm">Hosea 2:21,22</a> And it shall come to pass in that day: I will hear, saith the Lord, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../joel/2-23.htm">Joel 2:23</a> And you, O children of Sion, rejoice, and be joyful in the Lord your God: because he hath given you a teacher of justice, and he will make the early and the latter rain to come down to you as in the beginning.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../zechariah/10-1.htm">Zechariah 10:1</a> Ask ye of the Lord rain in the latter season, and the Lord will make snows, and will give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../james/5-17.htm">James 5:17,18</a> Elias was a man passible like unto us: and with prayer he prayed that it might not rain upon the earth. And it rained not for three years and six months. . . . </p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/2_chronicles/6.htm">Solomon's Prayer of Dedication</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">26</span>If the heavens be shut up, and there fall no rain by reason of the sin of the people, and they shall pray to thee in this place, and confess to thy name, and be converted from their sins, where thou dost afflict them, <span class="reftext">27</span><span class="highl">Then hear thou from heaven, O Lord, and forgive the sins of thy servants and of thy people Israel and teach them the good way in which they may walk: and give rain to thy land which thou hast given to thy people to possess.</span><span class="reftext">28</span>If a famine arise in the land, or a pestilence or blasting, or mildew, or locusts, or caterpillars: or if their enemies waste the country, and besiege the cities, whatsoever scourge or infirmity shall be upon them:…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../1_kings/8-36.htm">1 Kings 8:36</a></span><br />Then hear thou them in heaven, and forgive the sins of thy servants, and of thy people Israel: and shew them the good way wherein they should walk, and give rain upon thy land, which thou hast given to thy people in possession.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../psalms/94-12.htm">Psalm 94:12</a></span><br />Blessed is the man whom thou shalt instruct, O Lord: and shalt teach him out of thy law.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/1_chronicles/29-18.htm">Direct</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/6-25.htm">Forgive</a> <a 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