Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers, for we have sinned against thee.
New American Standard Bible
The iniquity of our fathers, for
King James Version
We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee.
Holman Bible
the guilt of our fathers;
indeed, we have sinned against You.
International Standard Version
We acknowledge, LORD, our wickedness, the guilt of our ancestors. Indeed, we have sinned against you.
American Standard Version
We acknowledge, O Jehovah, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against thee.
Amplified
We know and acknowledge, O Lord,
Our wickedness and the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against You.
Bible in Basic English
We are conscious, O Lord, of our sin and of the wrongdoing of our fathers: we have done evil against you.
Darby Translation
Jehovah, we acknowledge our wickedness, the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against thee.
Julia Smith Translation
We knew, O Jehovah, our evil, the iniquity of our fathers: for we sinned to thee.
King James 2000
We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against you.
Lexham Expanded Bible
We know, Yahweh, our wickedness, the iniquity of our ancestors, for we have sinned against you.
Modern King James verseion
We acknowledge, O Jehovah, our wickedness, the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against You.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
We knowledge, O LORD, all our misdeeds, and the sins of our fathers, that we have offended thee.
NET Bible
Lord, we confess that we have been wicked. We confess that our ancestors have done wrong. We have indeed sinned against you.
New Heart English Bible
We acknowledge, LORD, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against you.
The Emphasized Bible
We acknowledge O Yahweh Our own lawlessness The iniquity of our fathers, - For we have sinned against thee.
Webster
We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against thee.
World English Bible
We acknowledge, Yahweh, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against you.
Youngs Literal Translation
We have known, O Jehovah, our wickedness, The iniquity of our fathers, For we have sinned against Thee.
Themes
Confession of sin » Should be accompanied with » Prayer for forgiveness
intercession » Additional instances of » Jeremiah, for israel
Prayer » Brevity in prayer examples of brief prayers » Special pleas offered in
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 14:20
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Nation Hopes In Yahweh
19 Have thou utterly rejected Judah? Has thy soul loathed Zion? Why have thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came, and for a time of healing, and, behold, dismay! 20 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, do not break thy covenant with us.
Cross References
Nehemiah 9:2
And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.
Psalm 32:5
I acknowledged my sin to thee, and I did not hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to LORD, and thou forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.
Leviticus 26:40-42
And they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against me, and also that, because they walked contrary to me,
2 Samuel 12:13
And David said to Nathan, I have sinned against LORD. And Nathan said to David, LORD also has put away thy sin; thou shall not die.
2 Samuel 24:10
And David's heart smote him after he had numbered the people. And David said to LORD, I have sinned greatly in that which I have done, but now, O LORD, put away, I beseech thee, the iniquity of thy servant, for I have done very foo
Ezra 9:6-7
and I said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God, for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our guiltiness has grown up to the heavens.
Job 33:27
He sings before men, and says, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it did not profit me.
Psalm 51:3-4
For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me.
Psalm 106:6-48
We have sinned with our fathers. We have committed iniquity. we have done wickedly.
Daniel 9:5-8
we have sinned, and have dealt perversely, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even turning aside from thy precepts and from thine ordinances,
Luke 15:18-21
After rising, I will go to my father, and will say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and in thy sight.
1 John 1:7-9
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with each other, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses us from every sin.