2 Chronicles 6:23
Good News Translation
O LORD, listen in heaven and judge your servants. Punish the guilty ones as they deserve and acquit the innocent.

New Revised Standard Version
may you hear from heaven, and act, and judge your servants, repaying the guilty by bringing their conduct on their own head, and vindicating those who are in the right by rewarding them in accordance with their righteousness.

Contemporary English Version
Listen from heaven and decide who is right. Then punish the guilty person and let the innocent one go free.

New American Bible
listen in heaven: act and judge your servants. Condemn the wicked, requiting their ways; acquit the just, rewarding their justice.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then hear thou from heaven, and do justice to thy servants, so to requite the wicked by making his wickedness fall upon his own head, and to revenge the just, rewarding him according to his justice.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Then hear thou from heaven, and do justice to thy servants, so to requite the wicked by making his wickedness fall upon his own head, and to revenge the just, rewarding him according to his justice.

from heaven

2 Chronicles 6:21 And that thou wouldst hear the prayer which thy servant prayeth in it: hearken then to the prayers of thy servant, and of thy people Israel. Whosoever shall pray in its place, hear thou from thy dwelling place, that is, from heaven, and shew mercy.

requiting

Numbers 5:27 And when she hath drunk them, if she be defiled, and having despised her husband be guilty of adultery, the malediction shall go through her, and her belly swelling, her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse, and an example to all the people.

2 Kings 9:26 If I do not requite thee in this field, saith the Lord, for the blood of Naboth, and for the blood of his children, which I saw yesterday, saith the Lord. So now take him, and cast him into the field, according to the word of the Lord.

Psalm 10:14 Thou seest it, for thou considerest labour and sorrow: that thou mayst deliver them into thy hands. To thee is the poor man left: thou wilt be a helper to the orphan.

Proverbs 1:31 The turning away of little ones shall kill them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

Isaiah 3:11 Woe to the wicked unto evil: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.

Jeremiah 28:16,17 Therefore thus saith the Lord: Behold I will send thee away from off the face of the earth: this year shalt thou die: for thou hast spoken against the Lord. . . .

Jeremiah 51:56 Because the spoiler is come upon her, that is, upon Babylon, and her valiant men are taken, and their bow is weakened, because the Lord, who is a strong revenger, will surely repay.

Romans 2:9 Tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man that worketh evil: of the Jew first, and also of the Greek.

justifying

Deuteronomy 25:1 If there be a controversy between men, and they call upon the judges: they shall give the prize of justice to him whom they perceive to be just: and him whom they find to be wicked, they shall condemn of wickedness.

Proverbs 17:15 He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, both are abominable before God.

Isaiah 3:10 Say to the just man that it is well, for he shall eat the fruit of his doings.

Ezekiel 18:20 The soul that sinneth, the same shall die: the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, and the father shall not bear the iniquity of the son: the justice of the just shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.

Romans 2:10 But glory and honour and peace to every one that worketh good: to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

Context
Solomon's Prayer of Dedication
22If any man sin against his neighbour, and come to swear against him, and bind himself with a curse before the altar in this house: 23Then hear thou from heaven, and do justice to thy servants, so to requite the wicked by making his wickedness fall upon his own head, and to revenge the just, rewarding him according to his justice.24If thy people Israel be overcome by their enemies, (for they will sin against thee,) and being converted shall do penance, and call upon thy name, and pray to thee in this place,…
Cross References
Romans 2:8
But to them that are contentious and who obey not the truth but give credit to iniquity, wrath and indignation.

Romans 2:9
Tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man that worketh evil: of the Jew first, and also of the Greek.

2 Chronicles 6:22
If any man sin against his neighbour, and come to swear against him, and bind himself with a curse before the altar in this house:

Isaiah 3:11
Woe to the wicked unto evil: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.

2 Chronicles 6:22
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