Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 wild asses stand on [the] barren heights, they gasp [for] breath like the jackals. Their eyes fail because there is no vegetation." 7 Although our iniquities testify against us, Yahweh, act for the sake of your name. Yes, our apostasies are many; we have sinned against you. 8 [You are] the hope of Israel, its savior in time of distress. Why should you be like an alien in the land, or like a traveler who spreads out [his tent] to spend the night?
Cross References
Psalm 25:11
Also, for the sake of your name, O Yahweh, forgive my sin, because it [is] great.
Jeremiah 5:6
Therefore a lion from [the] forest will kill them, A wolf [from the] desert plains will devastate them. A leopard [is] watching their cities, everyone [who] goes out from there will be torn, because their transgressions are many, their apostasies are numerous.
Jeremiah 14:20-21
We know, Yahweh, our wickedness, the iniquity of our ancestors, for we have sinned against you.
Hosea 5:5
The pride of Israel testifies {against him}, and Israel and Ephraim stumble in their guilt, and Judah stumbles with them.
Isaiah 59:12
For our transgressions are numerous before you, and our sins {testify} against us. Indeed, our transgressions [are] with us, and we know our iniquities:
Jeremiah 2:19
Your wickedness will chastise you, and your apostasies will reprove you. Therefore know and see that [it is] evil and bitter, your forsaking of Yahweh, your God, and fear of me [is] not in you," {declares} the Lord, Yahweh of hosts.
Deuteronomy 32:27
If I had not feared a provocation of [the] enemy, lest their foes might misunderstand, lest they should say, "Our hand is {triumphant}, and Yahweh [did] not do all this." '
Joshua 7:9
The Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear [of this], and they will surround us and cut off our name from the land. What will you do, for your great name?"
Ezra 9:6-7
and said, "My God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift my face to you, my God. For our sins have risen above our heads and our guilt has grown up to the heavens.
Ezra 9:15
Yahweh, God of Israel, you are righteous, for we have been left this day as a remnant. Here we are before you in our guilt, for none can stand before you because of this."
Nehemiah 9:33-34
You are righteous in everything that has come on us, for you dealt faithfully, and we have acted wickedly.
Psalm 115:1
Not to us, O Yahweh, not to us, but to your name give glory, because of your loyal love, because of your faithfulness.
Jeremiah 3:6
Then Yahweh said to me in the days of Josiah, the king, "Have you seen what apostate Israel has done? She has gone on every high hill and under every leafy tree and she has prostituted [herself] there.
Jeremiah 8:14
Why [are] we sitting? Gather, and let us go into the fortified cities, and let us perish there, for Yahweh our God has caused us to perish, and has provided drink for us, water of poison, because we have sinned against Yahweh.
Ezekiel 20:9
"But I acted for the sake of my name {to keep it from being profaned} before the eyes of the nations {among whom they lived}, where I made known to them before their eyes, to bring them out from the land of Egypt.
Ezekiel 20:14
and I acted for the sake of my name, [that it] not be profaned before the eyes of the nations {before whom I brought them out}.
Ezekiel 20:22
But I withheld my hand, and I acted for the sake of my name not to be profaned before the eyes of the nations [before] whom I [had] brought them out before their eyes.
Daniel 9:5-16
we have sinned and we have done wrong and we acted wickedly and we rebelled and [have been] turning aside from your commandments and from your ordinances.
Daniel 9:18-19
Incline your ear, my God, and listen; open your eyes and look at our desolation and the city that is called [by] your name, for we [are] not presenting our pleas for mercy {before you} because of our righteousness, but [rather] because of your great compassion.
Hosea 7:10
The pride of Israel {testifies against him}-- they do not return to Yahweh their God; they do not seek him for all of this.
Ephesians 1:6
to the praise of the glory of his grace that he bestowed on us in the beloved,
Ephesians 1:12
[that] we who hoped beforehand in Christ should be for the praise of his glory,