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Read›Jeremiah›Chapter 14

A Prayer for Mercy

Jeremiah 14:20

In 11 translations

BSB
We acknowledge our wickedness, O LORD, the guilt of our fathers; indeed, we have sinned against You.
KJV
We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee.
WEB
We acknowledge, Yahweh, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against you.
ASV
We acknowledge, O Jehovah, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against thee.
LSV
We have known, O YHWH, our wickedness, || The iniquity of our fathers, || For we have sinned against You.
YLT
We have known, O Jehovah, our wickedness, The iniquity of our fathers, For we have sinned against Thee.
DBY
Jehovah, we acknowledge our wickedness, the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against thee.
DRC
We acknowledge, O Lord, our wickedness, the iniquities of our fathers, because we have sinned against thee.
GNV
We acknowledge, O Lord, our wickednesse and the iniquitie of our fathers: for we haue sinned against thee.
JPS
We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, even the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against Thee.
LXXE
We know, O Lord, our sins, and the iniquities of our fathers: for we have sinned before thee.

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Original-language editions

WLC
יָדַ֧עְנוּ יְהוָ֛ה רִשְׁעֵ֖נוּ עֲוֺ֣ן אֲבוֹתֵ֑ינוּ כִּ֥י חָטָ֖אנוּ לָֽךְ׃
LXX-Br
Ἔγνωμεν Κύριε ἁμαρτήματα ἡμῶν, ἀδικίας πατέρων ἡμῶν, ὅτι ἡμάρτομεν ἐναντίον σου.

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  • Psalms 32:5Then I acknowledged my sin to You and did not hide my iniquity. I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the LORD,” and You forgave the guilt of my sin. Selah
  • Jeremiah 3:25Let us lie down in our shame; let our disgrace cover us. We have sinned against the LORD our God, both we and our fathers; from our youth even to this day we have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.”
  • Luke 15:18–21I will get up and go back to my father and say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants.”’ So he got up and…
  • 1 John 1:7–9But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin. If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in…
  • Psalms 106:6–48We have sinned like our fathers; we have done wrong and acted wickedly. Our fathers in Egypt did not grasp Your wonders or remember Your abundant kindness; but they rebelled by the sea, there at the Red Sea. Yet He…
  • Leviticus 26:40–42But if they will confess their iniquity and that of their fathers in the unfaithfulness that they practiced against Me, by which they have also walked in hostility toward Me— and I acted with hostility toward them and…
  • Psalms 51:3–4For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me. Against You, You only, have I sinned and done what is evil in Your sight, so that You may be proved right when You speak and blameless when You judge.
  • Daniel 9:5–8we have sinned and done wrong. We have acted wickedly and rebelled. We have turned away from Your commandments and ordinances. We have not listened to Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings,…
  • Jeremiah 3:13Only acknowledge your guilt, that you have rebelled against the LORD your God. You have scattered your favors to foreign gods under every green tree and have not obeyed My voice,’” declares the LORD.
  • Nehemiah 9:2Those of Israelite descent separated themselves from all the foreigners, and they stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers.
  • Ezra 9:6–7and said: “O my God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift up my face to You, my God, because our iniquities are higher than our heads, and our guilt has reached the heavens. From the days of our fathers to this day,…
  • Job 33:27Then he sings before men with these words: ‘I have sinned and perverted what was right; yet I did not get what I deserved.
  • 2 Samuel 24:10After David had numbered the troops, his conscience was stricken and he said to the LORD, “I have sinned greatly in what I have done. Now, O LORD, I beg You to take away the iniquity of Your servant, for I have acted…
  • 2 Samuel 12:13Then David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the LORD.” “The LORD has taken away your sin,” Nathan replied. “You will not die.

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