Rashi on II Chronicles
And if Your people...is struck down not because You have no power, but because they will sin against You.
Rashi on II Chronicles
and confess - Heb. וְהוֹדוּ. The meaning is: and they will confess their iniquity, and the latter verse proves this (verse 26): “and confess to Your name and repent of their sin, so that You may answer them.”