Lectionary Calendar
Thursday, July 31st, 2025
the Week of Proper 12 / Ordinary 17
Attention!
StudyLight.org has pledged to help build churches in Uganda. Help us with that pledge and support pastors in the heart of Africa.
Click here to join the effort!

Read the Bible

Green's Literal Translation

Jeremiah 14:20

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Famine;   Intercession;   Prayer;   Repentance;   Sin;   Thompson Chain Reference - Prayer;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Confession of Sin;  

Dictionaries:

- Holman Bible Dictionary - Advocate;   Jeremiah;   Prophecy, Prophets;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Intercession;   Mediation;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for July 17;  

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.
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.
King James Version (1611)
We acknowledge, O Lord, our wickednes, and the iniquitie of our fathers: for wee haue 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 And you shall speak this Word to them: Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and do not let them cease. For the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great break, with a very grievous blow. 18 If I go out into the field, then I see those pierced with the sword. And if I enter into the city, then, behold, diseases of famine! Yes, both the prophet and the priest have gone around into a land that they do not know. 19 Have You completely rejected Judah? Or has Your soul hated Zion? Why have You stricken us and no healing is for us? We looked for peace, but no good came ; and for a healing time, but, behold, terror! 20 We acknowledge our wickedness, O Jehovah, the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against You. 21 For Your name's sake, do not spurn us ; do not dishonor the throne of Your glory. Remember, and do not break Your covenant with us. 22 Among the vanities of the nations are there any who make rain fall? Or can the heavens give showers? Is it not You, O Jehovah our God? Then we will wait for You; for You do 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 he said, Blessed be Jehovah, the God of Shem; and may Canaan be his slave.
Genesis 14:3
All these were joined together to the valley of Siddim, which is the Salt Sea.
Genesis 14:4
They served Chedorlaomer for twelve years, and the thirteenth year they rebelled.
Genesis 14:5
And in the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer and the kings that were with him came and struck the giants in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh Kiriathaim,
Genesis 14:6
and the Horites in the hills of Seir, as far as the oak of Paran, which is by the wilderness.
Genesis 14:9
with Chedorlaomer the king of Elam, and with Tidal the king of the nations, and Amraphel the king of Shinar, and Arioch the king of Ellasar; four kings with the five.
Genesis 14:17
And the king of Sodom went out to meet him, after he returned from smiting Chedorlaomer and the kings which were with him, to the valley of Shaveh, it being the valley of the king.
Genesis 14:19
And he blessed him and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of Heaven and earth;
Genesis 24:27
And he said, Blessed be Jehovah, God of my master Abraham, who has not left off His kindness and His truth with my master, I being in the way, Jehovah guided me to the house of the brother of my master.
Genesis 28:22
and this stone which I have placed as a memorial pillar shall become the house of God; and all which You shall give to me, I will tithe the tenth to You.

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.


 
adsfree-icon
Ads FreeProfile