New King James Version
Jeremiah 14:20
20We acknowledge, O Lord, our wickedness And the iniquity of our fathers, For we have sinned against You.
Jeremiah 14:20 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)We acknowledge, O Lord, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee.
- New International Version (NIV)We acknowledge our wickedness, Lord, and the guilt of our ancestors; we have indeed sinned against you.
- English Standard Version (ESV)We acknowledge our wickedness, O Lord, and the iniquity of our fathers, for we have sinned against you.
- New Living Translation (NLT)Lord, we confess our wickedness and that of our ancestors, too. We all have sinned against you.
Context of Jeremiah 14:20
18If I go out to the field, Then behold, those slain with the sword! And if I enter the city, Then behold, those sick from famine! Yes, both prophet and priest go about in a land they do not know.’ ” 19Have You utterly rejected Judah? Has Your soul loathed Zion? Why have You stricken us so that there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but there was no good; And for the time of healing, and there was trouble. We acknowledge, O Lord, our wickedness And the iniquity of our fathers, For we have sinned against You. 21Do not abhor us, for Your name’s sake; Do not disgrace the throne of Your glory. Remember, do not break Your covenant with us. 22Are there any among the idols of the nations that can cause rain? Or can the heavens give showers? Are You not He, O Lord our God? Therefore we will wait for You, Since You have made all these.
Read all of Jeremiah 14Jeremiah 14:20 word by word
יָדַ֧עְנוּ יְהוָ֛ה רִשְׁעֵ֖נוּ עֲוֹ֣ן אֲבוֹתֵ֑ינוּ כִּ֥י חָטָ֖אנוּ לָֽךְ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Jeremiah 14:20
- Jeremiah 3:13Only acknowledge your iniquity, That you have transgressed against the Lord your God, And have scattered your charms To alien deities under every green tree, And you have not obeyed My voice,’ says the Lord.
- Leviticus 26:40‘But if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, with their unfaithfulness in which they were unfaithful to Me, and that they also have walked contrary to Me,
- Ezra 9:6And I said: “O my God, I am too ashamed and humiliated to lift up my face to You, my God; for our iniquities have risen higher than our heads, and our guilt has grown up to the heavens.
- Nehemiah 9:2Then those of Israelite lineage separated themselves from all foreigners; and they stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers.
- Psalms 32:5I acknowledged my sin to You, And my iniquity I have not hidden. I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,” And You forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah
- Psalms 51:3For I acknowledge my transgressions, And my sin is always before me.
- Psalms 106:6We have sinned with our fathers, We have committed iniquity, We have done wickedly.
- Daniel 9:5we have sinned and committed iniquity, we have done wickedly and rebelled, even by departing from Your precepts and Your judgments.
- 1 John 1:7But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.
- 2 Samuel 12:13So David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.” And Nathan said to David, “The Lord also has put away your sin; you shall not die.
- 2 Samuel 24:10And David’s heart condemned him after he had numbered the people. So David said to the Lord, “I have sinned greatly in what I have done; but now, I pray, O Lord, take away the iniquity of Your servant, for I have done very foolishly.”
- Job 33:27Then he looks at men and says, ‘I have sinned, and perverted what was right, And it did not profit me.’
- Psalms 51:4Against You, You only, have I sinned, And done this evil in Your sight— That You may be found just when You speak, And blameless when You judge.
- Luke 15:18I will arise and go to my father, and will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you,
Commentaries on Jeremiah 14:20
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 20We acknowledge, O Lord, our wickedness - This the prophet did in behalf of the people; but, alas! they did not join him.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 17-22Verses 17-22 Jeremiah acknowledged his own sins, and those of the people, but pleaded with the Lord to remember his covenant. In their distress none of the idols of the Gentiles could help them, nor could the heavens give rain of themselves. The Lord will always have a people to plead with him at his mercy-seat. He will heal every truly repenting sinner. Should he not see fit to hear our prayers on behalf of our guilty land, he will certainly bless with…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 19-22Even though the Lord commanded otherwise (Jeremiah 14:11), Jeremiah prayed for God to lessen the current disaster and the worse one ahead.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2020. (Da 9:8).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Jeremiah 14
- 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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