New English Translation
Lamentations 3:42
42“We have blatantly rebelled; you have not forgiven.” ס (Samek)
Lamentations 3:42 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.
- New International Version (NIV)“We have sinned and rebelled and you have not forgiven.
- English Standard Version (ESV)"We have transgressed and rebelled, and you have not forgiven.
- New King James Version (NKJV)We have transgressed and rebelled; You have not pardoned.
Context of Lamentations 3:42
40Let us carefully examine our ways, and let us return to the Lord. 41Let us lift up our hearts and our hands to God in heaven: “We have blatantly rebelled; you have not forgiven.” ס (Samek) 43You shrouded yourself with anger and then pursued us; you killed without mercy. 44You shrouded yourself with a cloud so that no prayer can get through.
Read all of Lamentations 3Lamentations 3:42 word by word
נַ֤חְנוּ פָשַׁ֙עְנוּ֙ וּמָרִ֔ינוּ אַתָּ֖ה לֹ֥א סָלָֽחְתָּ׃ סRead the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Lamentations 3:42
- Lamentations 1:18The Lord is right to judge me! Yes, I rebelled against his commands. Please listen, all you nations, and look at my suffering! My young women and men have gone into exile. ק (Qof)
- Lamentations 5:16The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned!
- Nehemiah 9:26“Nonetheless they grew disobedient and rebelled against you; they disregarded your law. They killed your prophets who had solemnly admonished them in order to cause them to return to you. They committed atrocious blasphemies.
- Job 33:27That person sings to others, saying: ‘I have sinned and falsified what is right, but I was not punished according to what I deserved.
- Jeremiah 3:13However, you must confess that you have done wrong, and that you have rebelled against the Lord your God. You must confess that you have given yourself to foreign gods under every green tree, and have not obeyed my commands,’ says the Lord.
- Daniel 9:5we have sinned! We have done what is wrong and wicked; we have rebelled by turning away from your commandments and standards.
- Luke 15:18I will get up and go to my father and say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.
- 2 Kings 24:4Because he killed innocent people and stained Jerusalem with their blood, the Lord was unwilling to forgive them.
- Jeremiah 5:7The Lord asked, “How can I leave you unpunished, Jerusalem? Your people have rejected me and have worshiped gods that are not gods at all. Even though I supplied all their needs, they were like an unfaithful wife to me. They went flocking to the houses of prostitutes.
- Ezekiel 24:13You mix uncleanness with obscene conduct. I tried to cleanse you, but you are not clean. You will not be cleansed from your uncleanness until I have exhausted my anger on you.
- Zechariah 1:5“As for your ancestors, where are they? And did the prophets live forever?
Commentaries on Lamentations 3:42
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 40-42Verses 40-42 The prophet urges men to search out their faults and amend them. Lamentations 3:40 And turn again to the Lord - Or, “and return to Yahweh.” The prep. (to) in the Hebrew implies not half way, but the whole. Lamentations 3:41 Literally, “Let us lift up our heart unto our hands unto God in heaven;” as if the heart first lifted up the hands, and then with them mounted up in prayer to God. In real prayer the outward expression is caused by the…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 42-54Verses 42-54 The more the prophet looked on the desolations, the more he was grieved. Here is one word of comfort. While they continued weeping, they continued waiting; and neither did nor would expect relief and succour from any but the Lord.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 40-42Repentance is essential for receiving salvation (Isaiah 1:27; Jeremiah 3:22; Ezekiel 3:21).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 40-4240-42. us--Jeremiah and his fellow countrymen in their calamity. search--as opposed to the torpor wherewith men rest only on their outward sufferings, without attending to the cause of them (Psa 139:23, 24).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Lamentations 3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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