48 if they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies, who carried them 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:
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And [so] return unto thee with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies, which led them away captive, and pray unto thee toward (s) their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, the city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name:
(s) As Daniel did in (Daniel 6:10).
And so return unto thee, with all their heart, and with all their soul,.... In the most sincere and cordial manner, with great ingenuity and uprightness; the Targum is,
"return unto thy worship;''
relinquishing false worship they had given into, and serve the Lord in the best manner they could:
in the land of their enemies, which led them away captive; and so at a distance from that temple, and the service of it, which
And return - Sincerely, universally, and steadfastly.
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