Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
We knew, O Jehovah, our evil, the iniquity of our fathers: for we sinned to 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.
A Conservative Version
We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers, for we have sinned against thee.
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.
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 Rejecting, didst thou reject Judah? if thy soul abhorred in Zion? wherefore didst thou smite us, and no healing to us? waiting for peace, and no good; and for a time of healing, and behold terror. 20 We knew, O Jehovah, our evil, the iniquity of our fathers: for we sinned to thee. 21 Thou wilt not despise us; for sake of thy name, thou wilt not disgrace the throne of thy glory: remember, thou wilt not break thy covenant with us.
Cross References
Nehemiah 9:2
And the seed of Israel will be separated from all the sons of the stranger, and they will stand and confess over their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.
Psalm 32:5
I will make known to thee my sin, and mine iniquity I hid not I said, I will confess upon my transgression to Jehovah; and thou didst take away the iniquity of my sin. Silence.
Jeremiah 3:25
We shall lie down in our shame, and our reproach will cover us: for we sinned against Jehovah our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day, and we heard not to the voice of Jehovah our God.
Leviticus 26:40-42
And they shall confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, and the transgression which they dealt treacherously against me, and also that they went hostile with me;
2 Samuel 12:13
And David will say to Nathan, I sinned against Jehovah. And Nathan will say to David, Jehovah also passed over thy sin; thou shalt not die.
2 Samuel 24:10
And the heart of David will strike him after he thus reviewed the people. And David will say to Jehovah, I sinned greatly in what I did: and now, O Jehovah, now pass by the iniquity of thy servant, for I was very foolish.
Ezra 9:6-7
And saying, My God, I was ashamed and disgraced to lift up my face, O my God, to thee: for our iniquities were multiplied over the head, and our guilt was magnified even to the heavens.
Job 33:27
He will look upon men, and he shall say, I sinned, and I perverted the right, and it was not fitting to me;
Psalm 51:3-4
For I shall know my transgression, and my sin is always before me.
Psalm 106:6-48
We sinned with our fathers, we acted perversely, we did evil.
Jeremiah 3:13
Only know thine iniquity that thou didst transgress against Jehovah thy God, and thou wilt scatter thy ways to strangers under every green tree, and to my voice ye heard not, says Jehovah.
Daniel 9:5-8
We sinned, and we did iniquity, and were evil, and rebelled, and departing from thy commands and from thy judgments.
Luke 15:18-21
Having risen, I will go to my father, and say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,
1 John 1:7-9
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have communion with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from every sin.