2 Chronicles 6:23
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Act Conduct Decision Declare Ear Establish Guilty Head Hear Heaven Innocent Judge Judged Justifying Keeping Open Punishing Punishment Recompensing Repaying Requiting Retribution Rewarding Righteous Righteousness Servants Vindicating Way Wicked Wrong Wrongdoer
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Act Conduct Decision Declare Ear Establish Guilty Head Hear Heaven Innocent Judge Judged Justifying Keeping Open Punishing Punishment Recompensing Repaying Requiting Retribution Rewarding Righteous Righteousness Servants Vindicating Way Wicked Wrong Wrongdoer
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English Standard Version
then hear from heaven and act and judge your servants, repaying the guilty by bringing his conduct on his own head, and vindicating the righteous by rewarding him according to his righteousness.

New American Standard Bible
then hear from heaven and act and judge Your servants, punishing the wicked by bringing his way on his own head and justifying the righteous by giving him according to his righteousness.

King James Bible
Then hear thou from heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, by requiting the wicked, by recompensing his way upon his own head; and by justifying the righteous, by giving him according to his righteousness.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
may You hear in heaven and act. May You judge Your servants, condemning the wicked man by bringing what he has done on his own head and providing justice for the righteous by rewarding him according to his righteousness.

International Standard Version
then listen from heaven, act, and judge your servants, recompensing the wicked by bringing back to him the consequences of his choices and by justifying the righteous by recompensing him according to his righteousness.

NET Bible
listen from heaven and make a just decision about your servants' claims. Condemn the guilty party, declare the other innocent, and give both of them what they deserve.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
then hear [that person] in heaven, take action, and make a decision. Repay the guilty person with the proper punishment, but declare the innocent person innocent.

King James 2000 Bible
Then hear from heaven, and act, and judge your servants, by requiting the wicked, by bringing his conduct upon his own head; and by justifying the righteous, by giving to him according to his righteousness.

American King James Version
Then hear you from heaven, and do, and judge your servants, by requiting the wicked, by recompensing his way on his own head; and by justifying the righteous, by giving him according to his righteousness.

American Standard Version
then hear thou from heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, requiting the wicked, to bring his way upon his own head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.

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

Darby Bible Translation
then hear thou from the heavens, and do, and judge thy servants, requiting the wicked, to bring his way upon his own head; and justifying the righteous, giving him according to his righteousness.

English Revised Version
then hear thou from heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, requiting the wicked, to bring his way upon his own head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.

Webster's Bible Translation
Then hear thou from heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, by requiting the wicked, by recompensing his way upon his own head; and by justifying the righteous, by giving him according to his righteousness.

World English Bible
then hear from heaven, and do, and judge your servants, bringing retribution to the wicked, to bring his way on his own head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.

Young's Literal Translation
then Thou dost hear from the heavens, and hast done, and hast judged Thy servants, to give back to the wicked, to put his way on his head, and to declare righteous the righteous, to give to him according to his righteousness.
Lexicon
Then hear
shama`  (shaw-mah')
to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)
thou from heaven
shamayim  (shaw-mah'-yim)
air, astrologer, heaven(-s).
and do
`asah  (aw-saw')
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
and judge
shaphat  (shaw-fat')
to judge, i.e. pronounce sentence (for or against); by implication, to vindicate or punish; by extenssion, to govern; passively, to litigate
thy servants
`ebed  (eh'-bed)
a servant -- bondage, bondman, (bond-)servant, (man-)servant.
by requiting
shuwb  (shoob)
to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively
the wicked
rasha`  (raw-shaw')
morally wrong; concretely, an (actively) bad person -- + condemned, guilty, ungodly, wicked (man), that did wrong.
by recompensing
nathan  (naw-than')
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
his way
derek  (deh'-rek)
a road (as trodden); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb
upon his own head
ro'sh  (roshe)
the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.)
and by justifying
tsadaq  (tsaw-dak')
to be (causatively, make) right (in a moral or forensic sense) -- cleanse, clear self, (be, do) just(-ice, -ify, -ify self), (be turn to) righteous(-ness).
the righteous
tsaddiyq  (tsad-deek')
just -- just, lawful, righteous (man).
by giving
nathan  (naw-than')
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
him according to his righteousness
tsdaqah  (tsed-aw-kaw')
rightness (abstractly), subjectively (rectitude), objectively (justice), morally (virtue) or figuratively (prosperity) -- justice, moderately, right(-eous) (act, -ly, -ness).
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