“yet if they repent in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to you in the land of those who carried them captive, saying, ‘We have sinned and have done perversely; we have dealt wickedly,’”

Reading this verse in context

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Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.