Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Though our iniquities testify against us, work thou for thy name's sake, O LORD. For our backslidings are many. We have sinned against thee.
New American Standard Bible
O Lord, act
Truly our
We have
King James Version
O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou it for thy name's sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee.
Holman Bible
Yahweh, act for Your name’s sake.
Indeed, our rebellions
we have sinned against You.
International Standard Version
LORD,even though our iniquities testify against us, do something for the sake of your name. Indeed, our apostasies are many, and we have sinned against you.
American Standard Version
Though our iniquities testify against us, work thou for thy name's sake, O Jehovah; for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee.
Amplified
“O Lord, though our many sins testify against us” [prays Jeremiah],
“Act now [for us and] for Your name’s sake [so that the faithless may witness Your faithfulness]!
For our backslidings are countless;
We have sinned against You.
Bible in Basic English
Though our sins give witness against us, do something, O Lord, for the honour of your name: for again and again we have been turned away from you, we have done evil against you.
Darby Translation
Jehovah, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou act for thy name's sake; for our backslidings are many we have sinned against thee.
Julia Smith Translation
If our iniquities answered against us, O Jehovah, do for sake of thy name: for our turnings back were many; we sinned against thee.
King James 2000
O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do it for your name's sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against you.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Although our iniquities testify against us, Yahweh, act for the sake of your name. Yes, our apostasies are many; we have sinned against you.
Modern King James verseion
O Jehovah, though our iniquities testify against us, act for Your name's sake; for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against You.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
"Doubtless our own wickedness reward us: But LORD do thou according to thy name, though our transgressions and sins be many.
NET Bible
Then I said, "O Lord, intervene for the honor of your name even though our sins speak out against us. Indeed, we have turned away from you many times. We have sinned against you.
New Heart English Bible
"Though our iniquities testify against us, work for your name's sake, LORD; for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against you.
The Emphasized Bible
Though, our iniquities, have testified against us, O Yahweh, effectually work thou for the sake of thy Name, - For our apostasies have abounded Against thee, have we sinned.
Webster
O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou it for thy name's sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee.
World English Bible
Though our iniquities testify against us, work for your name's sake, Yahweh; for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against you.
Youngs Literal Translation
Surely our iniquities have testified against us, O Jehovah, work for Thy name's sake, For many have been our backslidings, Against Thee we have sinned.
Themes
Backsliding » Results of » Selfish absorption
Backsliding » Sin of, to be confessed
Backsliding » Liable to continue and increase
Confession of sin » Examples of national
Confession of sin » Should be accompanied with » Prayer for forgiveness
intercession » Additional instances of » Jeremiah, for israel
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 14:7
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Severe Drought
6 And the wild donkeys stand on the bare heights. They pant for air like jackals. Their eyes fail because there is no herbage. 7 Though our iniquities testify against us, work thou for thy name's sake, O LORD. For our backslidings are many. We have sinned against thee. 8 O thou hope of Israel, the Savior of it in the time of trouble, why should thou be as a sojourner in the land, and as a wayfaring man who turns aside to tarry for a night?
Cross References
Psalm 25:11
For thy name's sake, O LORD, pardon my iniquity, for it is great.
Jeremiah 5:6
Therefore a lion out of the forest shall kill them; a wolf of the evenings shall destroy them; a leopard shall watch against their cities. Everyone who goes out from there shall be torn in pieces, because their transgressions are m
Jeremiah 14:20-21
We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers, for we have sinned against thee.
Hosea 5:5
And the pride of Israel testifies to his face. Therefore Israel and Ephraim shall stumble in their iniquity. Judah also shall stumble with them.
Isaiah 59:12
For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us. For our transgressions are with us, and as for our iniquities, we know them:
Jeremiah 2:19
Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee. Know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and a bitter, that thou have forsaken LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, says the Lord, L
Deuteronomy 32:27
were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, lest their adversaries should judge amiss, lest they should say, Our hand is exalted, and LORD has not done all this.
Joshua 7:9
For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, and will encompass us around, and cut off our name from the earth, and what will thou do for thy great name?
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.
Ezra 9:15
O LORD, the God of Israel, thou are righteous, for we are left a remnant that is escaped, as it is this day. Behold, we are before thee in our guiltiness, for none can stand before thee because of this.
Nehemiah 9:33-34
However thou are just in all that has come upon us, for thou have dealt truly, but we have done wickedly,
Psalm 115:1
Not to us, O LORD, not to us, but to thy name give glory. For thy loving kindness, and for thy truth's sake.
Jeremiah 8:14
Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there. For LORD our God has put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against LORD.
Ezekiel 20:9
But I worked for my name's sake (that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, among which they were, in whose sight I made myself known to them) in bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt.
Ezekiel 20:14
But I worked for my name's sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them out.
Ezekiel 20:22
Nevertheless I withdrew my hand, and worked for my name's sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them forth.
Daniel 9:5-16
we have sinned, and have dealt perversely, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even turning aside from thy precepts and from thine ordinances,
Daniel 9:18-19
O my God, incline thine ear, and hear. Open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name. For we do not present our supplications before thee for our righteousness, but for thy great mercies' sak
Hosea 7:10
And the pride of Israel testifies to his face. Yet they have not returned to LORD their God, nor sought him for all this.
Ephesians 1:6
for appreciation of the glory of his grace, by which he blessed us in him who is beloved.
Ephesians 1:12
For us to be for appreciation of his glory, men who have first hoped in the Christ.