Lamentations 3:42

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Summary

Lamentations 3:42

We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.

Transgressed

Luke 15:18

Thou

Bible References

Transgressed

“The Lord is righteous;
For I have rebelled against His command;
Hear now, all peoples,
And behold my pain;

My virgins and my young men

Have gone into captivity.

The crown has fallen from our head;

Woe to us, for we have sinned!

“But they became disobedient and rebelled against You,
And cast Your law behind their backs
And killed Your prophets who had admonished them
So that they might return to You,
And they committed great blasphemies.

“He will sing to men and say,
‘I have sinned and perverted what is right,
And it is not proper for me.

‘Only

acknowledge your iniquity,

That you have transgressed against the Lord your God
And have scattered your favors to the strangers under every green tree,
And you have not obeyed My voice,’ declares the Lord.

we have sinned, committed iniquity, acted wickedly and rebelled, even turning aside from Your commandments and ordinances.

I will get up and go to my father, and will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight;

Thou

and also for the innocent blood which he shed, for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; and the Lord would not forgive.

“Why should I pardon you?
Your sons have forsaken Me
And sworn by those who are not gods.
When I had fed them to the full,
They committed adultery
And trooped to the harlot’s house.

“In your filthiness is lewdness.
Because I would have cleansed you,
Yet you are not clean,
You will not be cleansed from your filthiness again
Until I have

spent My wrath on you.

“Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?