Ecclesiasticus 59:12

Nova Vulgata

Multiplicatae sunt enim iniquitates nostrae coram te, et peccata nostra respondent nobis; quia scelera nostra nobiscum, et iniquitates nostras cognovimus:

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Multiplicat� sunt enim iniquitates nostr� coram te, et peccata nostra responderunt nobis, quia scelera nostra nobiscum et iniquitates nostras cognovimus.

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Multiplicat� sunt enim iniquitates nostr� coram te,
et peccata nostra responderunt nobis,
quia scelera nostra nobiscum
et iniquitates nostras cognovimus.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

our transgressions: Isaiah 1:4, Ezra 9:6, Jeremiah 3:2, Jeremiah 5:3-9, Jeremiah 5:25-29, Jeremiah 7:8-10, Ezekiel 5:6, Ezekiel 7:23, Ezekiel 8:8-16, Ezekiel 16:51, Ezekiel 16:52, Ezekiel 22:2-12, Ezekiel 22:24-30, Ezekiel 23:2-49, Ezekiel 24:6-14, Hosea 4:2, Matthew 23:32, Matthew 23:33, 1 Thessalonians 2:15, 1 Thessalonians 2:16

our sins: Jeremiah 14:7, Hosea 5:5, Hosea 7:10, Romans 3:19, Romans 3:20

we know: Ezra 9:13, Nehemiah 9:33, Daniel 9:5-8

Reciprocal: Genesis 30:33 - answer Numbers 32:23 - be sure your sin Job 36:9 - their Psalms 51:3 - my sin Isaiah 24:5 - because Jeremiah 5:6 - because Jeremiah 30:15 - for the Ezekiel 9:9 - The iniquity Zephaniah 1:17 - because

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For our transgressions are multiplied before thee,.... Not only an increase of immorality among the people in common, but among professors of religion; and as their transgressions are committed against the Lord, so they are in his sight taken notice of and observed by him, are loathsome and abominable to him, and call aloud for his judgments on them:

and our sins testify against us; God is a witness against us, in whose sight our sins are done; and our consciences are witnesses against us, which are as a thousand witnesses; and there is no denying facts; our sins stare us in the face, and we must confess our guilt: or, "our sins answer against us" c; as witnesses called and examined answer to the questions put, so our sins, being brought as it were into open court, answer and bear testimony against us; or it must be owned, our punishment for our sins answers to them; it is the echo of our sins, what they call for, and righteously comes upon us:

for our transgressions are with us; or, "on us" d; in our minds, on our consciences, loading us with guilt; continually accusing and condemning us; are manifest to us, as the Targum; too manifest to be denied:

and as for our iniquities, we know them; the nature and number of them, and the aggravating circumstances that attend them; and cannot but own and acknowledge them, confess, lament, and bewail them; an enumeration of which follows.

c חטאתינו ענתה בנו "peccata nostra respondit contra nos", Montanus; "id ipsum respondit contra nos", Cocceius; "even everyone of them", so Junius Tremellius "peccatorum nostrorum quodque", sic d אתנו "super nos", Munster.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Our sins testify against us - Hebrew, ‘Answer against us.’ The idea is, that their past lives had been so depraved that they became witnesses against them (compare the notes at Isaiah 3:9).

We know them - We recognize them as our sins, and we cannot conceal from ourselves the fact that we are transgressors.