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Jeremiah 14

Jer. 14:20 KJV (With Strong’s)

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We acknowledge
yada` (Hebrew #3045)
to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including observation, care, recognition; and causatively, instruction, designation, punishment, etc.) (as follow)
KJV usage: acknowledge, acquaintance(-ted with), advise, answer, appoint, assuredly, be aware, (un-)awares, can(-not), certainly, comprehend, consider, X could they, cunning, declare, be diligent, (can, cause to) discern, discover, endued with, familiar friend, famous, feel, can have, be (ig-)norant, instruct, kinsfolk, kinsman, (cause to let, make) know, (come to give, have, take) knowledge, have (knowledge), (be, make, make to be, make self) known, + be learned, + lie by man, mark, perceive, privy to, X prognosticator, regard, have respect, skilful, shew, can (man of) skill, be sure, of a surety, teach, (can) tell, understand, have (understanding), X will be, wist, wit, wot.
Pronounce: yaw-dah'
Origin: a primitive root
, O Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
, our wickedness
resha` (Hebrew #7562)
a wrong (especially moral)
KJV usage: iniquity, wicked(-ness).
Pronounce: reh'-shah
Origin: from 7561
, and the iniquity
`avon (Hebrew #5771)
from 5753; perversity, i.e. (moral) evil
KJV usage: fault, iniquity, mischeif, punishment (of iniquity), sin.
Pronounce: aw-vone'
Origin: or oavown (2 Kings 7:9; Psalm 51:5 (7)) {aw-vone'}
of our fathers
'ab (Hebrew #1)
father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application)
KJV usage: chief, (fore-)father(-less), X patrimony, principal. Compare names in "Abi-".
Pronounce: awb
Origin: a primitive word
: for wei have sinned
chata' (Hebrew #2398)
properly, to miss; hence (figuratively and generally) to sin; by inference, to forfeit, lack, expiate, repent, (causatively) lead astray, condemn
KJV usage: bear the blame, cleanse, commit (sin), by fault, harm he hath done, loss, miss, (make) offend(-er), offer for sin, purge, purify (self), make reconciliation, (cause, make) sin(-ful, -ness), trespass.
Pronounce: khaw-taw'
Origin: a primitive root
against thee.

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We acknowledge.
Jer. 3:13,25• 13Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against Jehovah thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith Jehovah.
25{i}We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us; for we have sinned against Jehovah our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah our God.{/i}
(Jer. 3:13,25)
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Lev. 26:40‑42• 40And they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, through their unfaithfullness wherein they were unfaithful to me, and also that they have walked contrary to me,
41so [that] I also walked contrary to them, and brought them into the land of their enemies. If then their uncircumcised heart be humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity,
42I will remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land.
(Lev. 26:40‑42)
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Ezra 9:6‑7• 6and said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens.
7Since the days of our fathers have we been in a great trespass unto this day; and for our iniquities have we, our kings, and our priests, been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to a spoil, and to confusion of face, as it is this day.
(Ezra 9:6‑7)
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Neh. 9:2• 2And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all strangers, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers{i}. (Neh. 9:2)
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Psa. 32:5• 5I make known my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not covered;{HR}I said I will confess concerning my transgressions unto Jehovah,{HR}And thou hast taken away the iniquity of my sin. Selah. (Psa. 32:5)
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Psa. 51:3• 3For I acknowledge my transgressions,{HR}And my sin is continually before me. (Psa. 51:3)
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Psa. 106:6‑48• 6We have sinned with our fathers,{HR}We have been perverse,{HR}We have done wickedly.
7Our fathers in Egypt understood not thy wonders;{HR}They remembered not the multitude of thy mercies,{HR}But rebelled at the sea, at the Red Sea.
8Yet he saved them for his name's sake,{HR}To make known his power.
9And he rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up;{HR}And he made them walk through the depths as the wilderness.
10And he saved them from the hater's hand,{HR}And redeemed them from the enemy's hand.
11And waters covered their adversaries;{HR}Not one of them was left.
12Then (and) believed they his words,{HR}They sang his praise.
13They hasted, they forgot his works,{HR}They waited not for his counsel;
14And lusted exceedingly in the wilderness,{HR}And tempted God in the desert.
15And he gave them their request,{HR}And sent leanness into their soul.
16And they were envious of Moses in the camp,{HR}Of Aaron, saint of Jehovah.
17Earth opened and swallowed up Dathan,{HR}And covered Abiram's company.
18And a fire burned in their company,{HR}A flame consumed wicked ones.
19They made a calf in Horeb{HR}And bowed down to a molten image;
20And changed their glory{HR}For the likeness of an ox eating grass.
21They forgot God their Saviour{HR}That did great things in Egypt,
22Wondrous works in Ham's land,{HR}Terrible things at the Red Sea.
23And he said he would destroy them,{HR}Had not Moses stood in the breach before him,{HR}To turn away his wrath from destroying.
24And they despised the pleasant land,{HR}They believed not his word;
25But they murmured in their tents;{HR}They did not hearken to Jehovah's voice.
26And he lifted up his hand to them,{HR}To make them fall in the wilderness,
27And to make their seed fall among the nations,{HR}And to scatter them in the lands.
28And they joined themselves to Baal-Peor{HR}And ate sacrifices of dead (beings).
29And they provoked him by their actions,{HR}And the plague broke out among them.
30Then stood up Phinehas and executed judgment,{HR}And the plague was stayed.
31And it was reckoned to him for righteousness{HR}To generation and generation for evermore.
32And they angered him at the waters of Meribah,{HR}And it went ill with Moses on their account,
33For they provoked his spirit,{HR}And he spoke unadvisedly with his lips.
34They destroyed not the peoples{HR}As (about which) Jehovah said to them;
35But they mingled with the nations{HR}And learned their doings.
36And they served their idols,{HR}Which became a snare unto them.
37And they sacrificed their sons{HR}And their daughters to the demons;
38And shed innocent blood—{HR}Blood of their sons and their daughters,{HR}Whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan,{HR}And the land was polluted with blood.
39And they were defiled in their doings,{HR}And went a whoring in their actions.
40And Jehovah's anger was kindled at his people,{HR}And he abhorred his inheritance.
41And he gave them into nations' hand,{HR}And over them ruled their haters.
42And their enemies oppressed them,{HR}And they were bowed down under their hand.
43Many times he delivereth them,{HR}And they rebel in their counsel{HR}And were brought low by their iniquity.
44But he regarded them in the distress{HR}When he heard them cry.
45And he remembered for them his covenant,{HR}And repented according to the multitude of his mercies;
46And he gave them compassion{HR}Before all that took them captives.
47Save us, Jehovah our God,{HR}And gather us from among the nations{HR}To give thanks unto thy holy name,{HR}To glory in thy praise.
48Blessed [be] Jehovah God of Israel{HR}From the everlasting and unto the everlasting!{HR}And let all the people say, Amen, Hallelujah .
(Psa. 106:6‑48)
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Dan. 9:5‑8• 5we have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, {i}and have rebelled, even turning aside from thy commandments and from thine ordinances.{/i}
6{i}And we have not hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, who spoke in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.{/i}
7{i}Thine, O Lord, is the righteousness, but unto us confusion of face, as at this day, to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, in all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their unfaithfulness in which they have been unfaithful against thee.{/i}
8{i}O Lord, unto us is confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee.{/i}
(Dan. 9:5‑8)
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1 John 1:7‑9• 7But if we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus [Christ] his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
8If we say that we have no sin, we mislead ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
9If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
(1 John 1:7‑9)
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J. N. Darby Translation

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

W. Kelly Translation

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We acknowledge, Jehovah, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee.