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Jeremiah 14:20

SinRepentanceGuilt and conscience

18 If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick with famine! yea, both the prophet and the priest go about into a land that they know not.

19 Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul lothed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we looked for peace, and there is no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble!

We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee.

21 Do not abhor us, for thy name’s sake, do not disgrace the throne of thy glory: remember, break not thy covenant with us.

22 Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O LORD our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these things.

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BSB
We acknowledge our wickedness, O LORD, the guilt of our fathers; indeed, we have sinned against You.
KJV
We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee.
WEB
We acknowledge, LORD, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against you.
ASV
We acknowledge, O Jehovah, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against thee.
DARBY
Jehovah, we acknowledge our wickedness, the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against thee.
BLB
We acknowledge, O YHWH, our wickedness, [and] the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against You.
ÅB
Vi kjenner, Herre, vår ugudelighet, våre fedres misgjerning, at vi har syndet mot deg.
OTB
Vi bekjenner vår misgjerning, Herre, og våre forfedres skyld; vi har virkelig syndet mot deg.
B1930
Vi kjenner, Herre, vår ugudelighet, våre fedres misgjerning, at vi har syndet mot dig.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Jeremiah 3:25

    We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.

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  • Psalms 32:5

    I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

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  • Luke 15:18–21

    I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,

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  • 1 John 1:7–9

    But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

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  • Jeremiah 3:13

    Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the LORD.

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  • Psalms 51:3–4

    For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.

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  • Leviticus 26:40–42

    If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;

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  • Daniel 9:5–8

    We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments:

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