2 Chronicles 6:36
Good News Translation
"When your people sin against you--and there is no one who does not sin--and in your anger you let their enemies defeat them and take them as prisoners to some other land, even if that land is far away,

New Revised Standard Version
“If they sin against you—for there is no one who does not sin—and you are angry with them and give them to an enemy, so that they are carried away captive to a land far or near;

Contemporary English Version
Everyone sins. But when your people sin against you, suppose you get angry enough to let their enemies drag them away to foreign countries.

New American Bible
When they sin against you (for there is no one who does not sin), and in your anger against them you deliver them to an enemy, so that their captors carry them off to another land, far or near,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And if they sin against thee (for there is no man that sinneth not) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them up to their enemies, and they lead them away captive to a land either afar off, or near at hand,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And if they sin against thee (for there is no man that sinneth not) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them up to their enemies, and they lead them away captive to a land either afar off, or near at hand,

they sin

1 Kings 8:46,50 But if they sin against thee, (for there is no man who sinneth not) and thou being angry, deliver them up to their enemies, so that they be led away captives into the land of their enemies, far or near; . . .

for this is no man

Job 15:14-16 What is man that he should be without spot, and he that is born of a woman that he should appear just? . . .

Psalm 130:3 If thou, O Lord, wilt mark iniquities: Lord, who shall stand it.

Psalm 143:2 And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight no man living shall be justified.

Proverbs 20:9 Who can say: My heart is clean, I am pure from sin?

Ecclesiastes 7:20 For there is no just man upon earth, that doth good, and sinneth not.

James 3:2 For in many things we all offend. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man. He is able also with a bridle to lead about the whole body.

1 John 1:8-10 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. . . .

thou be angry

Leviticus 26:34-44 Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths all the days of her desolation. When you shall be . . .

Deuteronomy 4:26,27 I call this day heaven and earth to witness, that you shall quickly perish out of the land, which, when you have passed over the Jordan, you shall possess. You shall not dwell therein long, but the Lord will destroy you, . . .

Deuteronomy 28:36,54-68 The Lord shall bring thee, and thy king, whom thou shalt have appointed over thee, into a nation which thou and thy fathers know not: and there thou shalt serve strange gods, wood and stone. . . .

Deuteronomy 29:24-28 And all the nations shall say: Why hath the Lord done thus to this land? what meaneth this exceeding great heat of his wrath? . . .

2 Kings 17:6 And in the ninth year of Osee, the king of the Assyrians took Samaria, and carried Israel away to Assyria: and he placed them in Hala, and Habor, by the river of Gozan, in the cities of the Medes.

2 Kings 18:23 Now therefore come over to my master, the king of the Assyrians, and I will give you two thousand horses, and see whether you be able to have riders for them.

2 Kings 15:21 And the rest of the acts of Manahem, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?

Daniel 9:7-14 To thee, O Lord, justice: but to us confusion of face, as at this day to the men of Juda, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, to them that are near, and to them that are far off, in all the countries whither thou hast driven them, for their iniquities, by which they have sinned against thee. . . .

Luke 21:24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword and shall be led away captives into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down by the Gentiles till the times of the nations be fulfilled.

Context
Solomon's Prayer of Dedication
35Then hear thou from heaven their prayers, and their supplications, and revenge them. 36And if they sin against thee (for there is no man that sinneth not) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them up to their enemies, and they lead them away captive to a land either afar off, or near at hand,37And if they be converted in their heart in the land to which they were led captive, and do penance, and pray to thee in the land of their captivity saying: We have sinned, we have done wickedly, we have dealt unjustly:…
Cross References
James 3:2
For in many things we all offend. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man. He is able also with a bridle to lead about the whole body.

1 John 1:8
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.

2 Chronicles 6:35
Then hear thou from heaven their prayers, and their supplications, and revenge them.

2 Chronicles 6:37
And if they be converted in their heart in the land to which they were led captive, and do penance, and pray to thee in the land of their captivity saying: We have sinned, we have done wickedly, we have dealt unjustly:

Job 15:14
What is man that he should be without spot, and he that is born of a woman that he should appear just?

Proverbs 20:9
Who can say: My heart is clean, I am pure from sin?

Ecclesiastes 7:20
For there is no just man upon earth, that doth good, and sinneth not.

2 Chronicles 6:35
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