And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the LORD would not pardon.
Lamentations 3:42 - King James 2000 We have transgressed and have rebelled: you have not pardoned. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 We have transgressed and have rebelled: Thou hast not pardoned. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition We have transgressed and rebelled and You have not pardoned. American Standard Version (1901) We have transgressed and have rebelled; thou hast not pardoned. Common English Bible We are the ones who did wrong; we rebelled. But you, God, have not forgiven. Catholic Public Domain Version NUN. We have acted sinfully, and we have provoked to wrath. About this, you are relentless. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Nun. We have done wickedly and provoked thee to wrath: therefore thou art inexorable. |
And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the LORD would not pardon.
And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to you, my God: for our iniquities have risen higher than our head, and our trespass has grown up unto the heavens.
Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against you, and cast your law behind their backs, and slew your prophets who testified against them to turn them to you, and they worked great provocations.
Because they rebelled against the words of God, and the counsel of the most High:
We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against you.
Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed against the LORD your God, and have scattered your favors to the strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed my voice, says the LORD.
The LORD is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my young men have gone into captivity.
The crown has fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
In your filthiness is lewdness: because I have purged you, and you were not purged, you shall not be purged from your filthiness any more, till I have caused my fury to rest upon you.
And now, O Lord our God, who has brought your people forth out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and has gotten yourself renown, as at this day; we have sinned, we have done wickedly.
Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live forever?
But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? and they returned and said, Like as the LORD of hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our deeds, so has he dealt with us.