Jeremiah Chapter 14 verse 20 Holy Bible
We acknowledge, O Jehovah, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against thee.
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We are conscious, O Lord, of our sin and of the wrongdoing of our fathers: we have done evil against you.
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Jehovah, we acknowledge our wickedness, the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against thee.
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We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee.
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We acknowledge, Yahweh, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against you.
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We have known, O Jehovah, our wickedness, The iniquity of our fathers, For we have sinned against Thee.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 20. - Our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers. There is a mysterious connection between the sin of the past and of the present. So in another prophet we read, "Your iniquities and the iniquities of your fathers together [will I requite]."
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(20) And the iniquity.--The insertion of the conjunction weakens the force of the original. The wickedness which Israel confesses is the iniquity of its fathers, inherited, accepted, on the way to be perpetuated.