Isaiah 59:12

New American Bible - revised edition

For our transgressions before you are many, our sins bear witness against us. Our transgressions are present to us, and our crimes we acknowledge:

Cross References

Ezra 9:13

“After all that has come upon us for our evil deeds and our great guilt—though you, our God, have made less of our sinfulness than it deserved and have allowed us to survive as we do—

Ezra 9:6

I said: “My God, I am too ashamed and humiliated to raise my face to you, my God, for our wicked deeds are heaped up above our heads and our guilt reaches up to heaven.

Nehemiah 9:33

In all that has come upon us you have been just, for you kept faith while we have done evil.

Psalm 51:3

Have mercy on me, God, in accord with your merciful love; in your abundant compassion blot out my transgressions.

Isaiah 1:4

Ah! Sinful nation, people laden with wickedness, evil offspring, corrupt children! They have forsaken the Lord, spurned the Holy One of Israel, apostatized,

Isaiah 3:9

Their very look bears witness against them; they boast of their sin like Sodom, They do not hide it. Woe to them! They deal out evil to themselves.

Isaiah 58:1

Cry out full-throated and unsparingly, lift up your voice like a trumpet blast; Proclaim to my people their transgression, to the house of Jacob their sins.

Isaiah 64:4

Would that you might meet us doing right, that we might be mindful of you in our ways! Indeed, you are angry; we have sinned, we have acted wickedly.

Jeremiah 14:7

Even though our crimes bear witness against us, act, Lord, for your name’s sake— Even though our rebellions are many, and we have sinned against you.

Jeremiah 3:2

Raise your eyes to the heights, and look, where have men not lain with you? Along the roadways you waited for them like an Arabian in the wilderness. You defiled the land by your wicked prostitution.

Ezekiel 5:6

But it rebelled against my ordinances more wickedly than the nations, and against my statutes more than the foreign lands around it; they rejected my ordinances and did not walk in my statutes.

Ezekiel 7:16

If their survivors flee, they will die on the mountains, moaning like doves of the valley on account of their guilt.

Ezekiel 7:23

They will wreak slaughter, for the land is filled with bloodshed and the city with violence.

Hosea 4:2

Swearing, lying, murder, stealing and adultery break out; bloodshed follows bloodshed.

Hosea 5:5

The arrogance of Israel bears witness against him; Israel and Ephraim stumble because of their iniquity, and Judah stumbles with them.

Hosea 7:10

The arrogance of Israel bears witness against him; yet they do not return to the Lord, their God, nor seek him, despite all this.

Habakkuk 1:4

This is why the law is numb and justice never comes, For the wicked surround the just; this is why justice comes forth perverted.

Numbers 32:23

But if you do not do this, you will have sinned against the Lord, and you can be sure that the consequences of your sin will overtake you.