Jeremiah 14:20

King James Version (1611 Edition)

We acknowledge, O Lord, our wickednes, and the iniquitie of our fathers: for wee haue sinned against thee.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
We acknowledge our wickedness, Lord,the iniquity of our fathers;indeed, we have sinned against you.

Hebrew Names Version
We acknowledge, LORD, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against you.

King James Version
We acknowledge, O Lord , our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee.

English Standard Version
We acknowledge our wickedness, O Lord , and the iniquity of our fathers, for we have sinned against you.

New American Standard Bible
We know our wickedness, LORD, The wrongdoing of our fathers, for we have sinned against You.

New Century Version
Lord , we admit that we are wicked and that our ancestors did evil things. We have sinned against you.

Amplified Bible
We know and acknowledge, O LORD, Our wickedness and the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against You.

World English Bible
We acknowledge, Yahweh, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against you.

Geneva Bible (1587)
We acknowledge, O Lord, our wickednesse and the iniquitie of our fathers: for we haue sinned against thee.

Legacy Standard Bible
We know our wickedness, O Yahweh,The iniquity of our fathers, for we have sinned against You.

Berean Standard Bible
We acknowledge our wickedness, O LORD, the guilt of our fathers; indeed, we have sinned against You.

Contemporary English Version
We and our ancestors are guilty of rebelling against you.

Complete Jewish Bible
We confess our rebellion, Adonai , also the crimes of our ancestors; yes, we have sinned against you.

Darby Translation
Jehovah, we acknowledge our wickedness, the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against thee.

Easy-to-Read Version
Lord , we know that we are wicked. We know that our ancestors did evil things. Yes, we sinned against you.

George Lamsa Translation
We acknowledge, O LORD, our sins and the sins of our fathers; for we have sinned against thee.

Good News Translation
We have sinned against you, Lord ; we confess our own sins and the sins of our ancestors.

Lexham English Bible
We know, O Yahweh, our wickedness, the iniquity of our ancestors, for we have sinned against you.

Literal Translation
We acknowledge our wickedness, O Jehovah, the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against You.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
We knowlege (o LORDE) all oure my?dedes, and the synnes of oure fathers, that we haue offended ye.

American Standard Version
We acknowledge, O Jehovah, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against thee.

Bible in Basic English
We are conscious, O Lord, of our sin and of the wrongdoing of our fathers: we have done evil against you.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, even the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against Thee.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
We knowledge (O Lorde) all our misdeedes, and the sinnes of our fathers: for we haue offended thee.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
We know, O Lord, our sins, and the iniquities of our fathers: for we have sinned before thee.

English Revised Version
We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Lord, we han know oure vnfeithfulnessis, and the wickidnessis of oure fadris, for we han synned to thee.

Update Bible Version
We acknowledge, O Yahweh, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against you.

Webster's Bible Translation
We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, [and] the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against thee.

New English Translation
Lord , we confess that we have been wicked. We confess that our ancestors have done wrong. We have indeed sinned against you.

New King James Version
We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness And the iniquity of our fathers, For we have sinned against You.

New Living Translation
Lord , we confess our wickedness and that of our ancestors, too. We all have sinned against you.

New Life Bible
We know that we are sinful, O Lord, and we know the sin of our fathers. For we have sinned against You.

New Revised Standard
We acknowledge our wickedness, O Lord , the iniquity of our ancestors, for we have sinned against you.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
We acknowledge O Yahweh Our own lawlessness The iniquity of our fathers, - For we have sinned against thee.

Douay-Rheims Bible
We acknowledge, O Lord, our wickedness, the iniquities of our fathers, because we have sinned against thee.

Revised Standard Version
We acknowledge our wickedness, O LORD, and the iniquity of our fathers, for we have sinned against thee.

Young's Literal Translation
We have known, O Jehovah, our wickedness, The iniquity of our fathers, For we have sinned against Thee.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
We know our wickedness, O LORD, The iniquity of our fathers, for we have sinned against You.

Contextual Overview

¹⁷ Therefore thou shalt say this word vnto them, Let mine eies runne downe with teares night and day, and let them not cease, for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grieuous blow. ¹⁸ If I goe forth into the field, then behold the slaine with the sword, and if I enter into the citie, then behold them that are sicke with famine, yea both the prophet and the priest goe about into a land that they know not. ¹⁹ Hast thou vtterly reiected Iudah? hath thy soule loathed Zion? why hast thou smitten vs, and there is no healing for vs? we looked for peace, and there is no good, and for the time of healing, and behold trouble. ²⁰ We acknowledge, O Lord, our wickednes, and the iniquitie of our fathers: for wee haue sinned against thee. ²¹ Do not abhorre vs, for thy Names sake, doe not disgrace the Throne of thy glorie: remember, breake not thy Couenant with vs. ²² Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause raine? or can the heauens giue showres, Art not thou he, O Lord our God? therefore we will waite vpon thee: for thou hast made all these things.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

We acknowledge: Jeremiah 3:13, Jeremiah 3:25, Leviticus 26:40-42, Ezra 9:6, Ezra 9:7, Nehemiah 9:2, Psalms 32:5, Psalms 51:3, Psalms 106:6-48, Daniel 9:5-8, 1 John 1:7-9

for: 2 Samuel 12:13, 2 Samuel 24:10, Job 33:27, Psalms 51:4, Luke 15:18-21

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 14:7 - do Jeremiah 18:20 - Remember Lamentations 2:20 - consider Daniel 9:8 - because Daniel 9:19 - thine Amos 7:2 - O Lord

Cross-References

Genesis 9:26
And hee saide, Blessed bee the LORD God of Shem, and Canaan shalbe his seruant.

Genesis 14:3
All these were ioyned together in the vale of Siddim; which is the salt Sea.

Genesis 14:4
Twelue yeeres they serued Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth yeere they rebelled.

Genesis 14:5
And in the fourteenth yeere came Chedorlaomer, and the Kings that were with him, and smote the Rephaims, in Ashteroth Karnaim, & the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emims in Shaueh Kiriathaim;

Genesis 14:6
And the Horites in their mount Seir, vnto El-Paran, which is by the wildernesse.

Genesis 14:9
With Chedorlaomer the King of Elam, and with Tidal King of nations, and Amraphel King of Shinar, and Arioch King of Ellasar; foure Kings with fiue.

Genesis 14:17
And the king of Sodome went out to meete him, (after his returne from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer, and of the Kings that were with him) at the valley of Saueh, which is the Kings dale.

Genesis 14:19
And hee blessed him, and saide; Blessed bee Abram of the most high God, possessour of heauen and earth,

Genesis 24:27
And hee saide, Blessed bee the LORD God of my master Abraham, who hath not left destitute my master of his mercy, and his trueth: I being in the way, the LORD led me to the house of my masters brethren.

Genesis 28:22
And this stone which I haue set for a pillar, shall be Gods house: and of all that thou shalt giue me, I will surely giue the tenth vnto thee.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

We acknowledge, O Lord, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers,.... This is said by the prophet, in the name of the few faithful that were among this people, who were sensible of their own sins, the sins of their ancestors, and which they ingenuously confess; their fathers had sinned, and they had imitated them, and continued in the same, and therefore might justly expect the displeasure of the Lord, and his controversy with them:

for we have sinned against thee; Jeremiah 14:7.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A second (compare Jeremiah 14:7-9) earnest intercession, acknowledging the wickedness of the nation, but appealing to the covenant and to God’s Almighty power.

Lothed - More exactly, “hath thrown away as worthless.”

Jeremiah 14:20

Our wickedness, and - Omit and. National sin is the sin of the fathers, perpetuated generation after generation by the children.

Jeremiah 14:21

This verse is in the original very emphatic, and consists of a series of broken ejaculations: “Abhor not for thy name’s sake! Disgrace - lightly esteem” in Deuteronomy 32:15 - “not the throne of thy glory! Remember! Break not etc. with us!” The throne of Yahweh’s glory is Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 14:22

None of the idols of the Gentiles can put an end to this present distress.

Art not thou he, O Lord our God! - Rather, “art thou not Yahweh our God?”

Thou hast made all these things - i. e., the heaven with its showers.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 14:20. We acknowledge, O Lord, our wickedness — This the prophet did in behalf of the people; but, alas! they did not join him.