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"Doubtless our own wickedness reward us: But LORD do thou according to thy name, though our transgressions and sins be many.
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.
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.
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 The wild Asses shall stand in the Moss, and draw in their wind like the Dragons, their eyes shall fail for want of grass." 7 "Doubtless our own wickedness reward us: But LORD do thou according to thy name, though our transgressions and sins be many. 8 For thou art the comfort and help of Israel in the time of trouble. Why wilt thou be as a stranger in the Land, and as one that goeth over the field, and cometh in only to remain for a night?
Cross References
Psalm 25:11
For thy name's sake, O LORD, be merciful unto my sin; for it is great.
Jeremiah 5:6
Wherefore a lion out of the wood shall hurt them, and a wolf in the evening shall destroy them. The cat of the mountain shall lie lurking by their cities, to tare in pieces all them that come thereout. For their offenses are many, and their departing away is great.
Jeremiah 14:20-21
We knowledge, O LORD, all our misdeeds, and the sins of our fathers, that we have offended thee.
Hosea 5:5
But the pride of Israel will be rewarded him in his face, yea both Israel and Ephraim shall fall for their wickedness, and Judah with them also.
Isaiah 59:12
For our offenses are many before thee, and our sins testify against us. Yea, we must confess that we offend, and acknowledge that we do amiss:
Jeremiah 2:19
Thine own wickedness shall reprove thee, and thy turning away shall condemn thee: that thou mayest know and understand, how evil and hurtful a thing it is, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and not feared him, sayeth the LORD God of Hosts.
Deuteronomy 32:27
were it not that I feared the railing of their enemies - lest their adversaries would be proud and say: Our high hand hath done all these works, and not the LORD.
Joshua 7:9
Moreover, the Canaanites, and all the inhabiters of the land shall hear of it, and shall come about us and destroy the name of us out of the world. And then what wilt thou do unto thy mighty name?"
Ezra 9:6-7
and said, "My God, I am ashamed, and dare not lift up mine eyes unto thee my God: for our wickednesses are grown over our head, and our trespasses are waxen great unto the heaven.
Ezra 9:15
O LORD God of Israel, thou art righteous, for we remain yet escaped, as it is this day. Behold, in thy presence are we in our trespass: for because of it is there no standing before thee."
Nehemiah 9:33-34
Thou art righteous in all that thou hast brought upon us: for thou hast done right.
Psalm 115:1
Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto thy name give the praise, for thy loving mercy, and for thy truth's sake.
Jeremiah 3:6
The LORD said also unto me, in the time of Josiah the king, "Hast thou seen what that shrinking Israel hath done? How she hath run up upon all high hills, and among all thick trees, and there played the harlot?
Jeremiah 8:14
Why prolong we the time? Let us gather ourselves together, and go into the strong city; there shall we be in rest. For the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water mixed with gall to drink: because we have sinned against him.
Ezekiel 20:9
But I would not do it, for my name's sake: that it should not be unhallowed before the Heathen, among whom they dwelt, and among whom I showed myself unto them, that I would bring them out of the land of Egypt.
Ezekiel 20:14
Yet I would not do it, for my name's sake: lest it should be dishonored before the Heathen, from the which I had carried them away.
Ezekiel 20:22
Nevertheless, I withdrew my hand for my name's sake, lest it should be unhallowed among the Heathen, before whom I had brought them forth.
Daniel 9:5-16
We have sinned, we have offended, we have been disobedient and gone back: yea, we have departed from all thy precepts and judgments.
Daniel 9:18-19
O my God, incline thine ear, and hearken; at the least for thine own sake, open thine eyes. Behold how we be desolated: yea, and the city also, which is called after thy name. For we do not cast our prayers before thee in our own righteousnesses, no, but only in thy great mercies.
Hosea 7:10
And the pride of Israel is cast down before their face, yet will they not turn to the LORD their God, nor seek him for all this.
Ephesians 1:6
to the praise of the glory of his grace, wherewith he hath made us accepted in the beloved.
Ephesians 1:12
that we should be unto the praise of his glory, which before believed in Christ.