Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

Do not remember the iniquities of our forefathers against us;
Let Your compassion come quickly to meet us,
For we are brought very low.

King James Version

O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low.

Holman Bible

Do not hold past sins against us;
let Your compassion come to us quickly,
for we have become weak.

International Standard Version

Don't charge us for previous iniquity, but let your compassion come quickly to us, for we have been brought very low.

A Conservative Version

Do not remember against us the iniquities of our forefathers. Let thy tender mercies speedily meet us, for we are brought very low.

American Standard Version

Remember not against us the iniquities of our forefathers: Let thy tender mercies speedily meet us; For we are brought very low.

Amplified


O do not remember against us the sins and guilt of our forefathers.
Let Your compassion and mercy come quickly to meet us,
For we have been brought very low.

Darby Translation

Remember not against us the iniquities of our forefathers; let thy tender mercies speedily come to meet us: for we are brought very low.

Julia Smith Translation

Thou wilt not remember against us former iniquities: thy compassions shall quickly anticipate us, for we were greatly weak:

King James 2000

O remember not against us former iniquities: let your tender mercies speedily precede us: for we are brought very low.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Do not remember against us former iniquities; let your mercies meet us quickly because we are brought very low.

Modern King James verseion

O do not remember against us our former sins; let Your tender mercies meet us quickly; for we are brought very low.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

O remember not our old sins, but have mercy upon us, and that soon; for we are come to great misery.

NET Bible

Do not hold us accountable for the sins of earlier generations! Quickly send your compassion our way, for we are in serious trouble!

New Heart English Bible

Do not hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us. Let your tender mercies speedily meet us, for we are in desperate need.

The Emphasized Bible

Do not remember against us former iniquities, - Haste thee, let thy compassions, come to meet us, For we have been brought very low!

Webster

O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily succor us: for we are brought very low.

World English Bible

Don't hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us. Let your tender mercies speedily meet us, for we are in desperate need.

Youngs Literal Translation

Remember not for us the iniquities of forefathers, Haste, let Thy mercies go before us, For we have been very weak.

Verse Info

Context Readings

Faith Amid Confusion

7 For they have devoured Jacob and laid waste his dwelling place. 8 Do not remember the iniquities of our forefathers against us;
Let Your compassion come quickly to meet us,
For we are brought very low.
9 Help us, O God, our saving health, for the honor of thy name and deliver us and purge away our sins, for thy name's sake.

Cross References

Psalm 116:6

The LORD preserves the simple; I was brought low, and he saved me.

Psalm 142:6

Attend unto my cry, for I am brought very low; deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I.

Isaiah 64:9

Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever; behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.

Deuteronomy 28:43

The stranger that is in the midst of thee shall get up above thee very high, and thou shalt come down very low.

Psalm 21:3

For thou givest him beforehand the blessings of goodness; thou settest a crown of pure gold on his head.

Genesis 15:16

But in the fourth generation they shall come here again; for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.

Exodus 32:34

Therefore go now, lead the people unto the place of which I have spoken unto thee; behold, my Angel shall go before thee; nevertheless in the day of my visitation I will visit their sin in them.

1 Kings 17:18

And she said unto Elijah, What have I to do with thee, O thou man of God? Art thou come unto me to call my iniquity to remembrance and to cause my son to die?

Psalm 25:7

Zain Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my rebellions; according to thy mercy remember me for thy goodness' sake, O LORD.

Psalm 69:16-17

Hear me, O LORD, for thy mercy is perceptible, look upon me according to the multitude of thy acts of compassion

Psalm 106:43

He delivered them many times, but they rebelled at his counsel and were brought low for their iniquity.

Psalm 130:3

If thou, O LORD, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall endure?

Ezekiel 2:3

And he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the sons of Israel, to rebellious Gentiles that have rebelled against me: they and their fathers have rebelled against me, even unto this very day.

Daniel 9:16

O Lord, according to all thy righteousness, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and all thy people is given in reproach to all that are about us.

Hosea 8:13

In the sacrifices of my gifts they sacrificed flesh and ate; but the LORD does not accept them; now he will remember their iniquity and visit their sins; they shall return to Egypt.

Hosea 9:9

They have arrived at the depths, they have corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah; therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sin.

Matthew 23:32-36

Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

Revelation 18:5

For her sins have reached unto the heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.

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